Ward 1 Education Council
Email: Ward1EducationCouncil@gmail.com
ListServ: https://groups.google.com/g/Ward1EdCouncil
Twitter: @Ward1EdCouncil
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Ward1EdCouncil
Ward 2 Education Council
Meetings: Third Wednesdays, 7pm (register for Zoom details)
Website: https://ward2edcouncil.org
Email: W2EdCouncil@gmail.com
Twitter: @W2EdCouncil
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ward2EdCouncil
Ward 3 - Wilson Feeder Education Network
Meetings: Second Mondays, 7pm (email for Zoom details)
Website: https://www.w3ednet.com
Email: w3ednet@gmail.com
Twitter: @W3EdNet
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/W3EdNet
Ward 4 Education Alliance
Meetings: Second Thursdays, 6-8pm (email for Zoom details)
Website: https://ward4edalliance.org
Email: Ward4edalliance@gmail.com
Phone: (202) 722-4462
Twitter: @Ward4Ed
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ward4EdDC
Ward 5 Education Equity Committee
Meetings: Third Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm (email for Zoom details)
Website: https://ward5eec.org
Email: contact@ward5eec.org
Twitter: @Ward5EEC
Ward 6 Public Schools Parent Organization (W6PSPO)
Meetings: Third Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm (email for Zoom details)
Website: https://w6pspo.org
Email: W6PSPO@gmail.com
Twitter: @W6PSPO
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/W6PSPO
Ward 7 Education Council
Meetings: First Thursdays, 6:30-8pm (register for Zoom details)
Email: ward7ed@yahoo.com
Twitter: @Ward7EdCouncil
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ward7EdCouncil
Ward 8 Education Council
Meetings: Third Thursdays, 6pm (register for Zoom details)
Email: dcsward8educationcouncil@gmail.com / ward8educationcouncil@gmail.com
Twitter: @ward8edcouncil
21st Century School Fund
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
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
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