Description
The Education Policy and Leadership Center is an
independent, non-partisan and not-for-profit organization
established in 1998 and based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Mission of EPLC
The mission of The Education Policy and Leadership Center is
to encourage and support the use of more effective state-level
education policies to improve student learning in grades P-12,
increase the effective operation of schools, and enhance
educational opportunities for citizens of all ages.
Education Policy Goals of EPLC
Embedded in all of the activities of The Education Policy and
Leadership Center is attention to EPLC's key education policy
goals. All of the Center's work is focused to develop public
policies and leaders that will advance the following six
education policy goals:
1. Improve the academic success of all students by strengthening
standards-based reforms, including assessments and
accountability measures.
2. Establish and maintain in Pennsylvania a statewide education
finance system based upon principles of adequacy, equity,
accountability and predictability.
3. Build effective educational capacity to support learning by
all students, with special emphasis on the need to ensure a
qualified teacher in every classroom at all times.
4. Ensure that all Pennsylvania school districts and every
school shall have school leaders who will promote and support
high achievement for all students through effective instructional
leadership, school management and governance.
5. Enact state policies that shall ensure that every young child
in Pennsylvania shall have access to high-quality early education
programs including pre-school and full-day kindergarten.
6. Ensure that all citizens of all ages shall have practical
financial and physical access to a rich range of post-secondary
educational opportunities.
Three Core Strategies of EPLC
The Education Policy and Leadership Center has developed and
implements three discrete but complementary core strategies to
support its mission. These strategies are to:
- Strategy #1 - Information
Link relevant and reliable research and other information to
state-level education policymakers and others and to provide
assistance with policy analysis and policy development.
- Strategy #2 - Leadership
Develop awareness and capacity among policymakers, educators
and community leaders to serve as advocates and champions for
significant education policy issues.
- Strategy #3 - Public Advocacy
Promote a public climate that expects and holds policymakers
accountable to advocate, adopt and implement effective
policies that advance significant education goals.
The Education Policy and Leadership Center is committed to:
Be a Catalyst
The Center initiates and supports public and policymaker
discussions concerning significant education policy issues.
Inform
For policymakers and the public, the Center is a source
of objective, comprehensive and reliable information concerning
current and emerging education policy issues.
The Center is both proactive with materials and programs that
provide information from a wide-range of resources as well as
reactive to specific requests from education policymakers and
lay leaders for information and various forms of technical assistance.
Promote Leadership
The Center sponsors and supports programs and activities designed
to build awareness and capacity among policymakers and community
leaders to champion significant issues concerning education
and young children.
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