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Students Matter - Groups
Organization | Board Members | Mission Statement  (Source: Organization websites) | Summary | 2012 Priorities | Funding
Alliance for a Better Community (ABC) | http://www.afabc.org/ | [NAME], President | [NAME], Secretary | [NAME], [NAME] | [NAME], M.D. | [NAME] | [NAME] | [NAME] | [NAME], Ph.D. | [NAME] | Ref Rodriguez | [NAME] | [NAME].D | ...(T)o ensure the Latino community experiences a rewarding and healthy quality of life. Given the demographics of L.A's population, these enhanced opportunities for the Latino community would create, in the long term, a better Los Angeles. | In 2000, a coalition of concerned Latino leaders created Alliance for a Better Community (ABC), a non-profit organization, as a result of a shared desire to establish a mechanism that responds to and shapes Latino policy in Los Angeles. | Economic Development: Financial Literacy and Workforce Development | Education: ECE (specific LA programs, Afterschool and Parent Engagement), Secondary (Achievement Gap and Access to College Prep Coursework) | Health (Access to Care and Recreation/Fitness Opportunities)
California Office to Reform Education (CORE) | http://coredistricts.org/ | [NAME], (President) Fresno USD Supt | [NAME], Long Beach USD Supt | [NAME], Los Angeles USD Supt | [NAME], Sacramento City USD Supt | [NAME], San Francisco USD Supt | [NAME], [NAME] | [NAME], Frmr CA Secy of Ed | [NAME], Clovis USD Supt | As a collaboration of districts, we work together to innovate, implement, and scale new strategies and tools that help our students succeed, so that our districts are improved to meet the challenges of the 21st century. | California Office to Reform Education - CORE is a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve student achievement by fostering highly-productive, meaningful collaboration and learning between its eight member school districts: Clovis, Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, and [NAME]. Together these districts serve more than one million Californian students and their families, with three specific areas of (California school district) collaboration: • Standards, Assessment and Instruction - Effectively implementing common core standards in English Language Arts and math, including aligned assessments, instructional materials, and professional development | • Talent Management - Developing, supporting, and empowering great teachers and school leaders through improved recruitment, preparation, and professional support systems, including an effective teacher and principal evaluation system | • Building Capacity for Improvement -  [NAME] and using information, knowledge, and experience across districts more effectively to improve instruction and foster systems of continuous improvement, particularly in support of struggling schools. | The group is working to develop an evaluation system and he is involved in a similar statewide effort with the California Department of Education. Hanson said development of teacher evaluation tools with CORE is still in the early stages... | http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/09/17/2542660/calif-teachers-face-grading-on.html
Democrats for Education Reform 503 2nd Street, NEWashington, DC 20002 (202) 445-0416 Website: http://www.dfer.org/ -- (DFER - CA  http://www.dfer.org/branches/ca/ ) | [NAME] (Chair), [NAME], [NAME], [NAME], Sara Mead, [NAME], [NAME] (California director Former Sen. [NAME]) | Democrats for Education reform is an organization with presence in many states. They address the issue of education disparities. DFER supports Democratic leaders that take the view that education should be fixed using what ever tools are necessary. This organization also attempts to empower the parent by advocating  empowerment that triggers expansion of school choice. In California the choice emphasis seems to be digital learning options. | Major legislative points that the Democrats for Education Reform are interested in are Parent Choice and vouchers.  They also believe in holding educators and administrators accountable and ensuring efficency while also encouraging mayoral participation in the education system. DFER supports letting principals choose highly effective faculty and merit based rewards. | Teacher quality and effectiveness  Competitive grants for schools  Teacher evaluation systems  School choice | [NAME] (New Mountain Capital)  [NAME] (CityBridge Foundaton)  [NAME] (Massachusetts 2020 Foundation)
Education Trust - West | http://www.edtrust.org/west | Founded by President [NAME], DC (original) Board:_x000D_ [NAME], Chair, President and CEO (retired), Sesame Workshop_x000D_ [NAME], Deputy Director of Education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation_x000D_ [NAME], CEO, Communities for Teaching Excellence_x000D_ [NAME], Clinical Professor of [NAME], [NAME]_ [NAME], Visiting Fellow, School of Education, Johns Hopkins University_x000D_ [NAME], Chancellor Emeritus, University System of Maryland_x000D_ [NAME], Director, Center for Research on Education Reform, University of Texas at El Paso_x000D_ [NAME], [NAME], Graduate School of Education, [NAME]_ [NAME], [NAME] Professor [NAME], George Mason University | The Education Trust—West is an Oakland-based statewide educational policy, research, and advocacy organization that works for the high academic achievement of all students at all levels, pre-k through college.  We expose opportunity and achievement gaps that separate students of color and low-income students from other youth, and we identify and advocate for the strategies that will forever close those gaps. | > Ensure access to effective teachers for every student._x000D_ > Support access to and success in college and career, from K-12 through higher education._x000D_ > Ensure adequate and equitable funding for all students. | •In 2010, we were among the first to advocate for the removal of language in state law that prevented the linking of teacher and student performance data, and along with the advent of Race to the Top, this language was finally amended through the passage of SB 19. _x000D_ • State leaders acknowledged that our California's Race to the Top: A Road Map for Round Two report helped them develop the strategy for Round Two of the Race to the Top competition.  After the state’s failed first round bid, we advocated for the district-driven strategy that was adopted for the second round of Race to the Top.  We participated in the working committee that drafted the language for the Great Teachers and Leaders portion in the higher scoring second round application.  As a result, California became eligible for Round Three of Race to the Top...
New Schools Venture Fund | http://www.newschools.org/ | [NAME], CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund_x000D_ Brook Byers, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers_x000D_ [NAME], Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers_x000D_ [NAME], Co-Founder and Chairman, Massachusetts 2020_x000D_ [NAME], Chief Executive Officer, [NAME]_ [NAME], [NAME] and Chair of the Board, Emerson Collective_x000D_ [NAME], [NAME] and Managing Partner, VSP Capital_x000D_ [NAME], Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Bellwether Education Partners_x000D_ [NAME], Managing Director, Tugboat Ventures | We are working to create a future in which every child, regardless of race or economic status, has access to the resources he or she needs to succeed in college and beyond. | NewSchools Venture Fund is a venture philanthropy firm working to transform public education by supporting education entrepreneurs and connecting their work to system change. Founded in 1998, NewSchools has invested in more than 100 nonprofit and for-profit organizations and raised nearly $180 million._x000D_ NewSchools ventures run 250 schools across the country — equivalent to the 33rd largest school district in the country._x000D_ In the 2009-10 school year, 88% of the 115,000 students served by our portfolio schools went on to college._x000D_ NewSchools human capital ventures have trained more than 120,000 teachers, who have reached over 12 million students. | Digital Learning
Parent Revolution |  http://parentrevolution.org/ | ([NAME], Executive Director)_x000D_ [NAME] (Chair)_x000D_ [NAME] (Secretary/Treasurer)_x000D_ Carolynn Martin_x000D_ Rev. K.W. Tulloss_x000D_ Maggie Neilson_x000D_ [NAME] Shakow_x000D_ Lydia Grant_x000D_ [NAME] Orszag_x000D_ [NAME] Miller_x000D_ [NAME] _x000D_ [NAME] Robinson_x000D_ [NAME], PhD_x000D_ Oralia Velasquez_x000D_ [NAME] Petruzzi_x000D_ Sareta [NAME] | Our mission: To transform public education based on what is good for children, not adults, by empowering parents to transform their under-performing schools through community organizing. | Our team works directly with parents at underperforming schools in Los Angeles and throughout California to help parents organize to transform their children’s under-performing schools using California’s historic Parent [NAME] law.  We use sophisticated and cutting edge community organizing techniques to help parents organize, create Parents Union chapters, build power, analyze their school’s performance, and fight for kids-first reforms that will dramatically improve academic outcomes for their children. | (Charter School Expansion) | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation East Bay Community Foundation The Broad Foundation  The Wasserman Foundation Walton Family Foundation Rogers Family Foundation California Education Policy Fund Silicon Valley Community Foundation  Biller Foundation
Students First  Michelle Rhee, [NAME] and CEO  P.O. Box 5280, Sacramento, CA 95817 [PHONE]  Website: http://www.studentsfirst.org/ | [NAME] BoD (http://www.studentsfirst.org/staff) | Our mission is to build a national movement to defend the interests of children in public education and pursue transformative reform, so that America has the best education system in the world. | Wikipedia: StudentsFirst is an organization formed by U.S. public school reform advocate [NAME] in 2010, after she resigned as school chancellor of Washington D.C. public schools. The organization is focused on eliminating the last in, first out" seniority system for laying off public school teachers, saying that such a system promotes a sense of "adult entitlement" among teachers; increases the number of teachers that must be laid off due to budget cuts and results in the loss of effective teachers (those who produce 50 percent more learning among their students). The organization supports the Student Success Act legislation signed into law by Governor [NAME] of Florida;[2] Michigan legislation that will remove a teacher's tenure status after a bad evaluation; and similar proposals in Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee." | Universal Choice including Vouchers, Eliminating Tenure, Eliminating Seniority Considerations, Parent Trigger Expansion http://www.studentsfirst.org/pages/survey | Walton Family Foundation                                                              Laura and [NAME] and Helen Schwab Foundation                                Broad Foundation                                                                               Charter Schools USA                                                        David Tepper                                                                        Alan Fournier
Students for Education Reform  115 E 23rd Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10010  Website: http://www.studentsforedreform.org/ | [NAME] (Chair) [NAME] (Treasurer) [NAME] [NAME] [NAME] [NAME] | Students for Education Reform is a non-profit group started by recent college graduates that harnasses the talents and passion of current college studnets for education reform.  There is a national headquarters, but there are student chapters on college campuses across the country.  The nonprofit center serves as a support system for the individual chapters and provides tools for them to tackle the orgnaization's agenda. | The organization supports the Student Success Act legislation signed into law by Governor [NAME] of Florida;[2] Michigan legislation that will remove a teacher's tenure status after a bad evaluation;[3] and similar proposals in Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.[4] The organization's activities have been the subject of significant coverage with articles appearing in the DailyKos,[5] the Huffington Post,[6] Fast Company magazine,[7] National Public Radio,[8] Education News Colorado,[9] The Washington Post,[10] The New York Times,[11] and USA Today.[12] | "Great Teachers, Great Schools" bill (MA)  Teacher Evaluations  Parent Empowerment  Innovative school options  Better school finance and staffing models | Education Reform Now