🚨 The dismantling of the Department of Education and defunding USDA directly hits students, teachers, and families across the country. Here is what we are watching: 📌 What’s happening? 📌Civil rights protections and student loan services are being slashed. 🔗https://edtru.st/4igNHLL 📌School meal funding is being cut, making it harder for kids to get the food they need.🔗https://edtru.st/41RtRzu 📌Educators weigh in on what this means for classrooms. 🔗https://edtru.st/43TjJsM When we talk about education policy and funding cuts, we’re talking about real lives. Stay informed, share the facts, and advocate for students. What can you do? EdTrust has a toolkit for this moment. 🔗https://edtru.st/3RenUaV #SaveOurStudents
EdTrust
Public Policy Offices
Washington, District of Columbia 57,671 followers
Advancing policies and practices to dismantle the racial and economic barriers embedded in the American education system
About us
EdTrust promotes high academic achievement for all students at all levels—pre-kindergarten through college. Our goal is to close the gaps in opportunity and achievement that consign far too many young people—especially those from low-income families or who are Black, Latino, or American Indian—to lives on the margins of the American mainstream. Although many organizations speak up for the adults employed by schools and colleges, we speak up for students, especially those whose needs and potential are often overlooked. We evaluate every policy, every practice, and every dollar spent through a single lens: what is right for students. We work alongside educators, parents, students, policymakers, and civic and business leaders in communities across the country, providing practical assistance in their efforts to transform schools and colleges into institutions that serve all students well. We analyze local, state, and national data and use what we learn to help build broader understanding of achievement and opportunity gaps and the actions necessary to close them. We participate actively in national and state policy debates, bringing lessons learned from on-the-ground work and from unflinching data analyses to build the case for policies that will help all students and schools reach high levels of achievement. Our Core Beliefs: We believe in the power of education to close the gaps that separate low-income students and students of color from other young Americans. We believe that schools and colleges, appropriately organized, can help virtually all students master the knowledge they need to succeed. We believe long-standing gaps in opportunity, achievement, and attainment have roots inside and outside of schools. And though we know these gaps are stubborn, we also know they are not inevitable. We believe a strong education improves the lives of young people, is vital to sustaining our democracy, and strengthens America.
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- Public Policy Offices
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Washington, District of Columbia
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1996
- Specialties
- Education, policy, research, and advocacy
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Washington, District of Columbia 20005, US
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Oakland, California 94607, US
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New York, NY 10038, US
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Redante Asuncion-Reed
Digital & Web Management | SEO & Analytics | Content Strategy | UX & Project Management | Digital Strategy Leadership
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Wendy Scott
Chief Financial Officer at The Education Trust
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Rachel Stalcup, CFRE
Chief Development Officer at The Education Trust
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Roxanne Garza
Director of Higher Education at Ed Trust
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Reminder to sign up for ARE's last webinar, happening TOMORROW from 2-3pm ET! Register here: https://edtru.st/3XMmiJi
📢The Alliance For Resource Equity (ARE) is hosting their last webinar in their webinar series: Public Dollars, Private Gain: Exposing the True Cost of School Vouchers, And What to Do About It School vouchers have been billed as programs that provide families with greater educational choices — this is far from the truth. School vouchers divert public dollars away from public schools, decreasing academic outcomes, deepening inequities, and skirting accountability guardrails. With pro-voucher advocates pushing for massive expansions to these programs at the state and federal level, what does this mean for adequate funding and resources in your community? This webinar will explain the true impact of voucher programs, exposing how these programs siphon funding from already under-resourced schools and destabilize the public education system that 90% of children use. EdTrust’s Qubilah Huddleston will share EdTrust resources to help communities launch effective advocacy campaigns against school voucher programs and lead a discussion with the panelists listed below, to share how they are raising their voice against these initiatives. Panelists✨ 📌Sasha Pudelski, Director of Advocacy, AASA, The School Superintendents Association 📌Fred Jones, Senior Director of Public Policy & Advocacy, Southern Education Foundation 📌Beth Lewis, Executive Director, Save Our Schools Arizona 📅Wednesday, March 19th 🕐2:00pm - 3:00pm ET REGISTER HERE: https://edtru.st/3XMmiJi
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Devastating wildfires in Southern California in early January 2025 were historic in scale and impact – including interrupting the education of more than 725,000 students. Read our new report from Undaunted and EdTrust that examines the impact of the January 2025 school closures in Los Angeles on students. https://edtru.st/4hlW6fz
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📌While a federal government shutdown is never in the national interest, the continuing resolution currently before the United States Senate fails to protect students. Instead of providing stability and ensuring investments in education, it leaves critical funding decisions in the hands of an administration that has repeatedly deprioritized the needs of students — particularly those from underserved communities Click here to read EdTrust's full statement and learn more: https://edtru.st/3R8ZOyj
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EdTrust Condemns the Trump Administration’s Weaponization of Investigations Against DEI in Higher Education. Read our statement from Augustus Mays , vice president of Partnerships and Engagement, on the Trump Administration’s investigations into over 50 universities DEI initiatives. Read More: https://edtru.st/41rwg3T
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📢EdTrust-Midwest is hiring! Ed Trust-Midwest seeks a full-time, Research and Data Intern to join a staff who are committed to fulfilling our mission of closing opportunity gaps that disproportionately affect students of color and students from low-income backgrounds. The intern will use their data, research, and project management skills to support The Education Trust-Midwest to analyze data and research on students’ access to educational resources across a range of policy areas, including school funding, college and career readiness, educator equity and diversity. APPLY HERE: https://edtru.st/4hkYLq0
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📌Presenting: EdTrust’s #SaveOurStudents Advocacy Toolkit The Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Department of Education pose a serious threat to public education. As advocates, we know that these unprecedented actions will result in devastating and irreversible harm to our students, communities, and country, both in the short and long term. Without federal safeguards, students of color, students from low-income backgrounds, and other underserved student populations will face increased disparities in access to a high-quality education. As we also know, public education is the backbone of our communities, economy, and democracy. Every student — no matter their background, race, disability, primary language, immigration status, identity, or economic circumstances — deserves to pursue the American Dream. So, what comes next? We must mobilize and organize. That’s why EdTrust has created an advocacy toolkit to help you push your local leaders to protect students and public education. We also have an interactive map of what each state stands to lose once they lose critical federal funding and other resources to help you with your advocacy efforts. Together, we can protect public education and #SaveOurStudents. Access the toolkit here: https://edtru.st/3RenUaV
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📢The Alliance For Resource Equity (ARE) is hosting their last webinar in their webinar series: Public Dollars, Private Gain: Exposing the True Cost of School Vouchers, And What to Do About It School vouchers have been billed as programs that provide families with greater educational choices — this is far from the truth. School vouchers divert public dollars away from public schools, decreasing academic outcomes, deepening inequities, and skirting accountability guardrails. With pro-voucher advocates pushing for massive expansions to these programs at the state and federal level, what does this mean for adequate funding and resources in your community? This webinar will explain the true impact of voucher programs, exposing how these programs siphon funding from already under-resourced schools and destabilize the public education system that 90% of children use. EdTrust’s Qubilah Huddleston will share EdTrust resources to help communities launch effective advocacy campaigns against school voucher programs and lead a discussion with the panelists listed below, to share how they are raising their voice against these initiatives. Panelists✨ 📌Sasha Pudelski, Director of Advocacy, AASA, The School Superintendents Association 📌Fred Jones, Senior Director of Public Policy & Advocacy, Southern Education Foundation 📌Beth Lewis, Executive Director, Save Our Schools Arizona 📅Wednesday, March 19th 🕐2:00pm - 3:00pm ET REGISTER HERE: https://edtru.st/3XMmiJi
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CASA, an immigrant advocacy organization, has called out Baltimore Public Schools and the state Department of Education to clarify their policies on how schools interact with immigration services. CASA stepped in after an Overlea High School Teacher allegedly offered to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement identifying information of 50 students who left school to attend an immigration rally in a social media post. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/emc8gNRQ
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The Department of Education is dramatically reducing their workforce, as announced today. Check out our latest blog to learn why cutting nearly half of the mission-critical staff positions across the Department of Education means fewer resources and support for students and families. Read the full blog: https://edtru.st/41Ye2s7
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