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Near the end of our second year of teaching at our public elementary school in the Bronx, our principal slipped a letter into each of our mailboxes thanking us for everything we had done for our school community and our students. As we each read these letters in our own classroom, we were both...

The House and Senate will soon come together to iron out the differences in their education bills before sending a compromise bill to the Governor. The funding and policies provisions that emerge will impact your profession, classroom, and ultimately your students. Below is what you...

May 1 (Boston) — E4E-Boston, a teacher-led organization, congratulates Dr. Brenda Cassellius on her selection as the next Superintendent of Boston Public Schools. In a survey last fall, over 500 E4E-Boston educators expressed their hope that the new superintendent would have previous classroom...

Dear Superintendent-Designate Cassellius,

Congratulations on your selection as the next Superintendent of Boston Public Schools!

I am excited to introduce you to Educators for Excellence Boston (E4E-Boston). My name is Brandy Fluker-Oakley, and I serve as...

Most people just about fall asleep when the topic of school funding comes up. It's not a sexy issue and there are a lot of nuances to understand. But for Monica Johnson, a teacher who has been working with Minnesota’s most underfunded kids for 22 years, it's what keeps her awake at night....

Read the entire op-ed by E4E-New York member Ashley Toussaint on Gotham Gazette.

Every day I stand in front of my classroom, filled with black and brown faces, intensely aware...

E4E-Minnesota educators have consistently prioritized the issue of racial disparities in school discipline as a top advocacy issue. Non-exclusionary discipline practices help to increase student learning time by keeping them in the classroom. For this reason, E4E-Minnesota joined the Solutions...

TO: Mayor-Elect Lori Lightfoot & the Education Transition Committee
FROM: Educators for Excellence-Chicago

Initiative: Work hand-in-hand with educators to shape and implement policies that set students and teachers up for success in...

April 17 (Boston) — Following today’s announcement of the three finalists for Superintendent of Boston Public Schools (BPS), E4E-Boston, a teacher-led organization, calls for the final selection process for the BPS superintendent finalists to be transparent, to include robust...

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A group of suburban students came to visit our urban school in Bridgeport. One of the students rushed up to tell me she loved my hair because I had dreadlocks and so did she. She had never seen a teacher with dreads before. She probably hadn't seen many,...

On a chilly night in February, sixteen educators graduated from E4E’s inaugural Leadership for Equity in Action Pipeline program. That evening marked the culmination of...

Had second-grade teacher Tianitha Alston never taught in a school with a strong union leader, she might never have realized the tremendous and powerful role unions can play in our education system.

During her first-year teaching in New York City, Tianitha grew frustrated that the...

On Tuesday, March 26th, E4E-Boston Outreach Director, Denise Manning testified at a City Council on behalf of educator, Monique Symes. The hearing centered on the safety and security measures taken to create safe school environments.

Monique’s testimony shared the importance of...

Read the entire article by Christina Veiga on Chalkbeat New York.

It was evident from the beginning that Richard Carranza would be a different kind of New York City schools chancellor.

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It was 2011 and I was a poet turned teacher turned activist who was flirting with a career in academia. I was working on a graduate thesis about this inherent contradiction in public education: If all the researchers and reformers agree that teachers are the most influential in-school variable...