About Us

"To me this is not just an issue of school reform, it is a civil rights issue, the civil rights issue of our time."
– Chancellor Joel Klein

"We have the ideas.  We have the examples We have the success stories.  What we have lacked is the courage to child by child, district by district, take on these tough intractable problems and challenge the status quo."
– U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan 

 

The Education Equality Project (EEP) was founded in 2008 as a national advocacy group focused on closing the achievement gap in education. EEP is committed to bringing real equity to public education. EEP is a non-partisan group of elected officials, civil rights leaders, and education reformers working to bring equity to our public education system. The partnership and shared passion of these leaders -- who hail from across the country and across the aisle -- is the heart of our organization.

Since its inception EEP has attracted a diverse and determined group of signatories and supporters all focused on the same clear goal:
   
    Close the achievement gap in public education now.


EEP exists in order to transform the power and resources of our wide coalition of supporters into an education reform movement that demands immediate real change and promotes the most effective strategies for advancing student achievement.

We will always test our proposed solutions against two simple measures:
   
    Will this help children succeed? Will this narrow the achievement gap?


While this may seem obvious, the reality is that for too long, reforms have not been evaluated by how they impact students, but by how they impact other interests.

EEP believes this crisis is too important to be derailed by partisan politics; age-old alliances; or the acceptance of incremental change. Yesterday is not soon enough for the change to begin.
 

To learn more about who we are:

Read about our History here.

Read about our Signatories here. 

Read about our Mission here.

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