Search

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...

I've got a story for you.

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.

...

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...

On March 22, 2019, the Massachusetts Joint Education Committee held a day-long hearing on overhauling how the state funds its schools. The legislators on the Committee sought community input on the numerous bills currently being debated, all of which have slightly different approaches to...

On March 14, the Minnesota House held a hearing on eliminating the use of suspensions and expulsions in pre-k programs, House File 1785.

E4E Minnesota member Amy Eelkema, a 20-year special education teacher and now a consultant for St. Paul Public Schools, shared her insights as a...

When you reflect on your first year as an educator, what is one thing you wish you’d been ready for on day one in your classroom?

As you know all too well, new educators are expected to meet the needs of increasingly diverse classrooms, but inadequate preparation and poorly designed...

On March 4, the Minnesota House held a hearing on House File 1329, a bill that would create an opaque teacher licensing system that shuts out many teachers of color. E4E-Minnesota...

Read the entire op-ed by Gage Salicki on CT Viewpoints.

I began my teaching career in Hartford nearly three years ago, and for my entire tenure with Hartford Public Schools, I have chosen to...

Read the entire article by Madeline Will on Education Week.

Once again, President Donald Trump's budget proposal has eliminated the $2.1 billion Title II grant program that...