Teach Plus Mississippi solicited main spending priorities from Teacher Policy Fellows in Mississippi through a survey (July 2020). Mental health supports was identified as the number one priority for educators in the state so Teach Plus MS worked to develop a brief (?) outlining these recommendations that then led to a more detailed advocacy letter (December 2021) for local policymakers going into the budget cycle.
We Demand - Alliance for Quality Education
The Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) gathered and identified top funding priorities from parents. Based on these priorities, the AQE team developed the We Demand report (June 2021) to capture those common priorities and then created district-specific Now What? fact sheets (October 2021) to support parents in those districts (Albany, Buffalo, Kingston, New York City, Rochester, and Utica) to take actions to advocate for their priorities with district leaders. The one pagers cross-reference parent priorities with district plans, lay out specific actions parents can take, and offer contact information for AQE staff for additional support.