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Seeing Policy Change Through

In 2017, legislators passed landmark policy change on some of EdAllies’ top priorities, from overhauling the state’s broken teacher licensure system to establishing a competitive state grant to support alternative teacher preparation programs, to improving the state’s approach to disaggregating student achievement data.

The recent changes to teacher licensure and prep will help us recruit and retain great, diverse people who we know will make excellent teachers, but who have never before had the chance. Dawn Gunderson Taylor, Chief Talent Officer of Hiawatha Academies in Minneapolis Great Teachers for All Minnesota Classrooms: Progress & Next Steps, March 2018

In many ways, those changes were only the beginning of our advocacy. Throughout 2018, we worked to make sure these reforms were implemented with urgency and fidelity in alignment with the intent behind them. This meant serving as a watchdog on multiple fronts, including:

While this work doesn’t grab headlines often, we know this is the only way to guarantee that the policies for which we advocate have their intended impact on students.

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2018 Highlights

Advocating for Systemic Change

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Seeing Policy Change Through

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Changing the Conversation

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