Eight Community Engagement Practices That Facilitate Stronger Decision-Making
At Afton, we think of community engagement as the process of collaborating with impacted groups to ensure they influence the decisions that will ultimately affect them. It’s part of living out our values to center the human experience, collaborate inclusively, and prioritize justice. In fact, it’s core to everything we do.
The Coming Education Marketplace: How Today’s Choices Will Shape Tomorrow’s Opportunities
The expansion of education tax credits and ESAs is creating an education marketplace that will either exacerbate inequity or expand opportunity. The difference depends entirely on the rules we set now.
Fiscal Cliff Pressures – the Impact of ‘the Six Es’ on District Budgets
School districts across the country have experienced massive systemic changes over the past few years. However, much of this disruption has been masked by one-time pandemic relief funds in the national conversation – and in budgets. As those funds end, states and districts will need to tackle the resulting challenges head on.
Two Systems, One Family: The Lived Reality of America’s Educational Divide
The first in a three-part series exploring an under-examined tension in American education: the fact that young children and their families must navigate two entirely different systems before and after age five.
