NEA-Affiliated Schools Receiving SIG Funds

Click on a state below to see the schools that have been award School Improvement Grants (SIG) and to see which of the 4 models was selected for each school: transformation, turnaround, restart or closure.
Alabama SIG Schools
Indiana SIG Schools
Iowa SIG Schools
Maryland SIG Schools
Minnesota SIG Schools
New Jersey SIG Schools
New Mexico SIG Schools
North Carolina SIG Schools
Ohio SIG [...]

Priority Schools Campaign Pledge Card

How do we expose and close the education gaps that deny our students the basics and keep opportunity always a zip code or two away? By showing that our communities will no longer sit quietly at the back of the line for quality teachers and adequate resources. Students succeed if adults intercede, working together and [...]

SIG Grant Totals by State

The U.S. Department of Education has approved School Improvement Grant applications (click on state name to see the application) for several states and has announced the amount of grant money those states will receive. The states that currently have approved SIG applications include:
Alabama: $58 million
Alaska: $10.7 million
Arizona: $70 million
* Click here for an overview of SIG funds in Arizona
Arkansas: $40 [...]

What K-12 Educators Can Do

NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign needs the commitment of K-12 educators to help make real and lasting change for Priority school students and their teachers. Many of today’s students face tremendous challenges to academic success. The Priority Schools Campaign is the work of NEA members in struggling schools to meet these challenges and close student achievement gaps for all students.
Learn how [...]

What Education Support Professionals Can Do

NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign is the work of NEA members in struggling schools to raise student achievement and transform public education. That’s where you come in: about 75 percent of education support professionals (ESPs) live, work, shop, and vote in the same school district as their students. NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign needs your commitment and community connections to help close achievement [...]

What Student Members Can Do

NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign needs the energy and passion of student educators to help give every child a great public school. Many of today’s students face tremendous challenges to academic success. The Priority Schools Campaign is the work of NEA members in struggling schools to meet those challenges and close student achievement gaps for all students.
Learn how to get involved:
What [...]

What Retired Educators Can Do

NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign needs the life skills and expertise of retired educators to help transform public schools. Many of today’s students face tremendous challenges to academic success. The Priority Schools Campaign is the work of NEA members in struggling schools to meet those challenges and close student achievement gaps for all students.
Learn how to get involved:
What Retired Educators Can [...]

What Higher Education Members Can Do

More students are attending college and university classes, and they need to be prepared to succeed. NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign is working to significantly raise student achievement in struggling schools, and we need your help to create a pipeline from public schools to college campuses. Not only will your students be better prepared, more successful public education in [...]

Can Teacher Power Save Schools?

By Alain Jehlen
In a sunny courtyard at Los Angeles’ sprawling Jefferson High School, three freshmen girls are writing a radio script about a tornado.
Teacher Nicolle Fefferman has asked her class to write scripts about being caught in a natural disaster. The girls’ plot line: They’re having a party to celebrate wonderful news when a tornado [...]

The Sound of School Transformation is a “Tweet”

If you aren’t among the more than 500 people and organizations following NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign on Twitter, (www.twitter.com/priorityschools) here’s what you missed – just in the first half of June:
(By the way, Twitter is simple – sign up for an account, follow us on a computer and/or phone, and only send messages yourself if/when [...]

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