Other Education Orgs

About: The 21st Century School Fund (21CSF) was founded in 1994 on the premise that communities are responsible for creating healthy, safe, and educationally appropriate learning environments. 21CSF is dedicated to building the public will and capacity to modernize public school facilities so they support high quality education and community revitalization.

Website: http://www.21csf.org

Coalition for DC Public Schools & Communities (C4DC)

About: The Coalition for Public Schools & Communities is committed to excellent public education opportunities for all children in our city. Our members are a diverse group of activists – Ward-level education councils, school organizations and other groups – who share a common goal.

Website: www.c4dcpublicschools.org

Email: c4dcpublicschools@gmail.com

DC Association for Special Education

About: DCASE is an alliance of nonpublic and charter schools that provide special education services to students from the District of Columbia. Members are dedicated to improving educational opportunities for all DC students with disabilities.

Website: http://dcase.org

DC Education Coalition for Change

About: DECC unites parents, educators, students, and community members to organize and take informed collective action on education issues. They train, connect, and activate diverse leaders from communities & schools to demand justice and equity in our education system.

Website: https://www.deccdc.com

DC Education Research Collaborative

About: Created in response to 2018 DC Council legislation in order to provide actionable, independent research to support improvement in public schools, the DC Education Research Collaborative is composed of 21 education stakeholders who determine the Collaborative's research agenda, and 15 research organizations who conduct rigorous research designed and implemented in partnership with members of the DC education community.

Website: https://www.urban.org/projects/dc-education-research-collaborative

DC Fiscal Policy Institute

About: The DC Fiscal Policy Institute conducts research and public education on budget and tax issues in the District of Columbia, with a particular emphasis on issues that affect low- and moderate-income residents.

Website: http://www.dcfpi.org

DC Schools Analysis

About: Substack by David Alpert with data and analysis on education in DC.

Website: https://dcschools.info

DC Special Education Cooperative

About: The Co-op fills a unique community need in DC by working with teachers, school leaders, and across charter schools to improve educational services for students with disabilities. By pooling resources between independent charter schools, the Co-op also acts as a “central office” for DCPCS spread throughout the city serving a diverse range of students.

Website: http://specialedcoop.org

DC Students Succeed

About: DC Students Succeed brings together individuals — students, families, DC residents — and organizations in support of creating excellent and equitable public schools for all students.

Website: https://dcstudentssucceed.org

Decoding Dyslexia

About: DC families concerned about the limited access to educational interventions for students with dyslexia and other reading difficulties.

Website: www.decodingdyslexiadc.org

Digital Equity in DC Education

About: During the last three years we have tried to impress on our city officials that to ensure digital equity, DC government must guarantee reliable technology access for all students in all DC Public Schools. And that in addition to providing computers to students, DC government must equip students with digital literacy skills, provide more robust tech support to schools, and ensure that every family has reliable, high-speed Internet.

Website: https://www.digitalequitydced.com

Education Policy Initiative (DC Policy Center)

About: The DC Policy Center’s Education Policy Initiative seeks to bring objective analyses and a broad urban policy perspective to education conversations in the District of Columbia, providing new data and information to help improve outcomes for D.C.’s students, especially those students furthest from opportunity.

Website: https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/education-policy-initiative

Education Town Hall

About: The Education Town Hall is the intersection where parents, students, teachers, administrators, community members, policy makers and politicians can all meet to share stories, struggles, and solutions. The show airs on Thursdays at 11am on WeActRadio.com

Website: http://educationtownhall.org

Empower DC

About: The mission of Empower DC is to enhance, improve and promote the self-advocacy of low and moderate income DC residents in order to bring about sustained improvements in their quality of life. We accomplish our mission through grassroots organizing and trainings, leadership development, and community education.

Website: www.empowerdc.org

EmpowerEd

About: EmpowerEd’s mission is to bring about a more just and equitable education system for all DC students by centering the voices and ideas of diverse educators and creating a culture of shared leadership that retains excellent educators.

Website: https://www.weareempowered.org

EmpowerK12

About: EmpowerK12 works with policymakers, system leaders, school leaders, educators, students, and families to boldly accelerate learning by providing stakeholders with high-quality data systems, robust strategic analysis, and an equity-oriented, collaborative improvement mindset.

Website: https://www.empowerk12.org

Fight for Children

About: We fight to improve the lives of children in low-income neighborhoods in Washington, DC. Strengthening schools by providing school leaders and teachers the training and tools they need to help students succeed since 1990.

Website: http://fightforchildren.org

The Grassroots Education Project

About: The Grassroots Education Project empowers communities to serve schools and improve outcomes. Our vision is to transform the relationship all neighborhood schools have with their surrounding community, developing a sense of shared responsibility leading to direct collective action to improve student outcomes.

Website: http://www.grassrootseducationproject.org

Parents Amplifying Voices in Education (PAVE)

About: Founded in April 2016 with an all-parent governing board, PAVE is dedicated to creating an environment where the vision for education in DC is created with children and families, not for them. We aim to shift the dynamic so that communities and parents are partners in creating great schools.

Website: https://dcpave.org

Raise DC

About: Raise DC is a cross-sector partnership of local stakeholders formed to promote a culture shift from competition over Washington, DC, resources to collaboration, in providing every youth with opportunities to succeed from cradle to career.

Website: www.raisedc.org

Senior High Alliance of Parents Principals and Educators (SHAPPE)

About: S.H.A.P.P.E. is an organization of the District of Columbia Public (DCPS) high school parent leaders, concerned educators and principals in Washington D.C.

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/shappesite

Washington Lawyers' Committee - Education Justice Programs

About: Washington Lawyers' Committee's Education Justice work addresses inequality in education, particularly for children of color, with disabilities and English language learners in the District of Columbia, through four core areas: parent empowerment, academic enrichment, school partnerships and legal cases and matters.

Website: https://www.washlaw.org/what-we-do/education-justice

Nationwide Education Organizations

The Education Trust

About: The Education Trust is a national nonprofit that works to close opportunity gaps that disproportionately affect students of color and students from low-income families. Through our research and advocacy, Ed Trust supports efforts that expand excellence and equity in education from preschool through college, increase college access and completion particularly for historically underserved students, engage diverse communities dedicated to education equity, and increase political and public will to act on equity issues.

Website: https://edtrust.org

In the Public Interest

About: In the Public Interest is a national nonprofit research and policy organization that studies public goods and services. We help community organizations, advocacy groups, public officials, researchers, and the general public understand how the privatization of public goods impacts service quality, democracy, equity, and government budgets. We also advocate for strengthening, adequately funding, and building popular support for a government that works for all of us.

Website: http://inthepublicinterest.org

National Association for the Education of Young Children

About: The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is a professional membership organization that works to promote high-quality early learning for all young children, birth through age 8, by connecting early childhood practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.

Website: www.naeyc.org

Phone: 202-232-8777

National Network for Youth

About: The nation’s leading organization advocating at the federal level to educate the public and policymakers about the needs of homeless and disconnected youth.

Website: http://nn4youth.org

Phone: 202-783-7949

Teaching for Change

About: Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write, and change the world. By drawing direct connections to real world issues, Teaching for Change encourages teachers and students to question and re-think the world inside and outside their classrooms; build a more equitable, multicultural society; and become active global citizens.

Website: https://www.teachingforchange.org

Other Education Orgs

Ward-Specific Education Councils

District-Wide Education Organizations