Everyone deserves an opportunity to shoot for the moon. Everyone should be able to use public education as a gateway to opportunity. But public education is struggling. Too often, opportunity is determined by ZIP codes, and our democracy is at risk.
Imagine if our legacy to the next generation included an equitable education system.
The National Education Association is working to promote, protect, and strengthen public education. Our moonshots are ambitious, and require the sum of us, not just some of us, to stand up for schools in every district, join together with partners and allies, and create a system that enables all public school supporters to save public education today and for the future.
We invite you to join us and our partners in the first two opportunities to mobilize for public education.
Public School Strong
Public School Strong is an organizing and visibility campaign of Race Forward's HEAL Together initiative, started by parents and community organizers in North Carolina, that aims to mobilize everyday folks to support equity in our nation's public schools and protect schools from the rising tide of extremist attacks against public education. Public School Strong leaders attend school board meetings, meet with state legislators, and are present in other places of power to visibly promote, protect, and strengthen public education so that all children benefit, no matter who they are or where they come from.
How Does Public School Strong Work?
Public School Strong operates at both a statewide level and through local school district teams. Students, parents, educators and community members
run trainings that help others gain the skills they need to advocate for honest, equitable, and fully funded public schools. Public School Strong teams also develop strategies to engage their local school boards and support local elections.
Moonshot goal: train and support at least 3 people in every school district in the United States.
The Campaign Lab
The Campaign Lab helps local communities and their partners address various issues of equity and racial justice in education through well-planned campaigns. These issues could be related to schools or broader community concerns, such as class size reduction, affordable housing or increasing the minimum wage.
The Lab is being executed in collaboration with the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS), a national education justice coalition. All AROS organizations are recruiting local campaigns to participate.
Moonshot goal: Support 500 or more campaigns, approximately 10 per state.
