Initiatives

  • Early Childhood Education
  • Middle and High School Redesign
  • Accountability and Literacy for All
  • Turn-Around Strategy/Failing Schools
  • Coordinated School Health

Our overall Framework of Priorities focuses on:

Within this broad framework, our initial work goes beyond framing issues, researching best practices, and recommending polices and practices to improve education. We focus efforts at all levels of the system to help "transform policies into results" in the classroom. We do this by connecting major stakeholders and building a platform for partnerships that begin with conversations and end in solutions. Our current initiatives include:

  • Louisiana Center for Afterschool Learning
  • Entergy
  • Capital One Bank
  • State Farm Insurance
  • Louisiana Association of United Ways
  • Alliance for Education
  • Huey and Angelina Wilson Foundation
  • Patrick F. Taylor Foundation
  • Picard Center
  • Reily Foundation
  • Moran Printing
  • Object 9
  • Charles S. Mott Foundation
  • Louisiana Department of Children & Family Services