American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence
The American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE) is dedicated to recruiting, preparing, certifying and supporting teachers. ABCTE certification is not just a test; it is a program designed to inspire career changers to enter teaching and give them a rigorous and efficient process to achieve their goals.
American Federation for Children
The American Federation for Children is a leading national advocacy organization promoting school choice, with a specific focus on advocating for school vouchers and scholarship tax credit programs.
Association of American Educators (AAE)
The Association of American Educators (AAE) is the largest national, non-union, professional educators’ organization, advancing the profession by offering a modern approach to teacher representation and educational advocacy, as well as promoting professionalism, collaboration and excellence without a partisan agenda..
Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO)
The mission of BAEO is to increase access to high-quality educational options for black children by actively supporting parental choice policies and programs that empower low-income and working-class black families.
Cato Institute
The Cato Institute is a public policy research organization — a think tank — dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace. Its scholars and analysts conduct independent, nonpartisan research on a wide range of policy issues.
Common Core
Common Core is a source for quality education standards, programs, and curricula. We promote programs, policies, and initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels that provide students with challenging, rigorous instruction in the full range of liberal arts and sciences.
Connections Academy
The Connections Academy program is a rapidly growing form of free public school that students in grades K–12 attend outside the walls of a traditional classroom. At Connections Academy, each student receives individualized instruction, including lessons tailored to that student’s academic strengths and weaknesses.
Digital Learning Now
Digital Learning Now! is a national campaign to advance policies that will create a high quality digital learning environment to better prepare students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and careers.
Education Intelligence Agency
Established in June 1997, the Education Intelligence Agency (EIA) is a private, for-profit, one-man contract research firm focused on the inner workings of the teachers’ unions. EIA provides quick, accurate information concerning the public education establishment.
Educators for Excellence
Educators 4 Excellence works to ensure that the voices of classroom teachers are included in the decisions that affect our profession and our students. E4E teachers advocate for teacher leadership and collaboration, push for policies at the district and state level, and get involved with their unions to ensure their opinions are represented.
Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice
The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, Inc., was established in 1996 to promote universal school choice as the most effective and equitable way to improve the quality of K-12 education in America. The Friedman Foundation amplifies the national call for true education reform through universal school choice.
Foundation for Excellence in Education
Our mission is to ignite a movement of reform state by state to transform education for the 21st century. There is no “Silver Bullet” that will change the course of American schools. The Foundation believes in a comprehensive reform agenda to create a high-quality, student-centered education system.
Heartland Institute
The Heartland Institute is a national nonprofit research and education organization. The mission of The Heartland Institute is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems.
Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institution—a think tank—whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.
Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Outcomes
The Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options’ mission is to create awareness of the educational crisis that exists within the Hispanic community nationally by empowering Hispanic parents to become advocates for their children.
iNACOL (The international Association for K-12 Online Learning)
iNACOL, The International Association for K-12 Online Learning, is a nonprofit organization that facilitates collaboration, advocacy, and research to enhance quality K-12 online teaching and learning.
K12 Virtual Learning
At K¹², our mission has remained steadfast: To provide any child access to exceptional curriculum and tools that enable him or her to maximize his or her success in life, regardless of geographic, financial, or demographic circumstance.
National Charter Schools Institute
The National Charter Schools Institute’s mission is to transform public education and power performance, productivity and accountability breakthroughs that help people win for kids. We see the charter schools movement as a way to expand choice and competition and drive the transformation of public education into a more market-based system of schools.
National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)
The National Council on Teacher Quality advocates for reforms in a broad range of teacher policies at the federal, state and local levels in order to increase the number of effective teachers. In particular, we recognize the absence of much of the evidence necessary to make a compelling case for change and seek to fill that void with a research agenda that has direct and practical implications for policy.
National School Choice Week
National School Choice Week provides an unprecedented opportunity, every January, to shine a spotlight on the need for effective education options for all children. National School Choice Week features special events and activities that highlight support for school choice programs and proposals.
Noodle Education
Noodle is the first and only life-long education related search company in the world. Our goal is to provide a recommendation engine to help anyone find educational opportunities at all levels, from K-12 to college, grad school, weekend classes, and professional development.
Parent Revolution
Our mission is 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.
Reason Foundation
Reason Foundation advances a free society by developing, applying, and promoting libertarian principles, including individual liberty, free markets, and the rule of law. Reason Foundation produces respected public policy research on a variety of issues and publishes the critically-acclaimed Reason magazine.
Students for Education Reform
SFER is a new nonprofit founded for students, by students that meets the clear and urgent need for a powerful student organizing body for education reform, demanding change in a system that currently fails millions of students
U.S. Department of Education
The mission of the Department of Education is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.
UnionFacts
The Center for Union Facts has gathered a wealth of information about the size, scope, political activities, and criminal activity of the labor movement in the United States of America. The Center for Union Facts is dedicated to showing Americans the truth about today’s union leadership.