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Program: Public Education Grants Year: 2003
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Program: Public Education Grants
For Year: 2003
Alliance for Quality Education
Public Policy and Education Fund (PPEF)
718-222-1089
88 Third Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11217
Christine Marinoni Coordinator
christinem@aqeny.org
718-222-1089
http://www.aqeny.org
2003
Public Education Grants
Founded in 2000, the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) is a coalition of parent, labor, service, advocacy and youth organizations from across New York State, dedicated to securing increased funding for public education at the state and local level. Through its base of 250 member organizations, AQE has mobilized thousands of individuals to participate in actions that have helped fight cuts in the state and local education budgets. Focusing on a five point agenda that includes class size reduction, school construction, recruitment and retention of qualified teachers and school leaders, universal pre-k, and schools that are accountable to parents and the community, AQE will work to gain support for long-term education funding policy that will provide equitable and adequate resources for all New York's children. Our three-year renewal grant of $135,000 will support AQE's organizing efforts in New York City.
American Institute for Social Justice (AISJ)
718-246-7900
739 8th Street SE
Washington, District of Columbia
Steve Kest National Coordinator
skest@acron.org
718-246-7900
http://www.acorn.org
Size: $30,000
2003
Public Education Grants
For more than a decade, community groups affiliated with ACORN have prioritized education organizing in their local work. As a national network, ACORN realizes that there is enormous potential for replication of successful education organizing strategies across sites, as well as to conduct joint research and action campaigns. With the Foundation's renewal grant of $30,000, AISJ will continue to provide training and technical assistance to education organizers and leaders of ACORN affiliate organizations in order to increase their capacity to effectively address education reform issues focusing on teacher quality, and the recently enacted No Child Left Behind Legislation.
Center for Community Change (CCC)
718-246-7900
1000 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20007
Lee Dingerson Coordinator
ldingerson@communitychange.org
718-246-7900
http://www.communitychange.org
Size: $30,000
2003
Public Education Grants
Around the country, community organizations are beginning to work with teachers unions, identifying common goals for the children in schools in their neighborhoods. In April 2002, with funding from Hazen, the Center for Community Change held a national meeting - The Partnership for Change -- that brought together representatives of community organizations, local teachers unions, the national teachers union, funders and interested partners with the goal of strengthening relationships among them and to develop viable strategies on school and district level reforms. CCC received a renewal grant of $30,000 to continue its support of collaborative work by teachers unions and community organizing groups on school reform campaigns, through convenings, networking and outreach.
