May 2012 - Education Week's multi-part series featuring Stand for Children
- "New Education Groups Shaking Up Advocacy Field," 5/16/12
"A new generation of education advocacy groups has emerged to play a formidable political role in states and communities across the country. Those groups are shaping policy through aggressive lobbying and campaign activity—an evolution in advocacy that is primed to continue in the 2012 elections and beyond."
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- "New K-12 Advocacy Groups Wield State-Level Clout," 5/16/12
"If there is a clear sign of the growing influence of a new breed of national education advocacy organizations, it surely lies in their entry into state-level politics. That involvement has advanced the groups' similar policy priorities on such issues as overhauling teacher evaluation and expanding charter schools."
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- "Relations Between Advocacy Groups, Unions Uneasy," 5/21/12
"Some view the entrance on the political scene of such groups as Stand for Children as a welcome development—one that adds fresh voices in a field that, at the local and state level at least, has been largely dominated by unions."
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- "Foundation Cash Boosts Education Advocacy Groups," 5/16/12
"Private foundations are playing a growing role in financing the nonprofit educational wings of several prominent K-12 advocacy groups. The efforts they underwrite run from the mundane—translating school district materials into Spanish, for instance—to activities deeply intertwined with policy, such as providing information to parents on topics like teacher evaluation and school choice."
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- "Outside Advocacy Groups Target Local School Board Elections," 5/21/12
"Representatives of education advocacy groups say nothing fundamental has changed in the landscape of local campaigns, except that more players are paying attention to important, and often overlooked, elections."
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