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September 2024: AESA State Examiner

October 1, 2024

Each month, the State Examiner covers five topics including:

  • Legislative Issue Monitoring
  • Statehouse News: Education Policy (with links to news items)
  • State Budget and Finance Monitoring
  • National Reports Impacting Education
  • Advocacy Tips

Each topic includes a brief introduction. To read the full articles under each headline, click on the "+" sign next to the topic.
Please find the pdf here for readers who prefer to print a version of the September 2024 State Examiner.

Legislative Issue Monitoring

In each edition of the State Examiner, AESA monitors state-level legislation and legislative trends impacting educational service agencies and their client schools and districts. This month’s report for September 2024 will examine school vouchers and related private school choice legislation.

Read the full article below.

State Budget and Finance Monitoring

AESA monitors state level budget and finance news impacting preschool and primary and secondary education. These curated articles can provide insights into what is happening in your state and collectively across the U.S. The latest state budget and finance-related news for September 2024 follows below.

National Reports Impacting Education

AESA monitors state and national reports highlighting state-level information of interest to ESAs. As always, it is important to view these reports through a critical lens with attention to research design, methodology, data sources and citations, peer review, and publication venue. This month AESA spotlights reports from The Pew Charitable Trust and The National Council on Teacher Quality.

Advocacy Tip

In the data-driven world of K-12 education, where test scores and statistics often dominate policy discussions, the power of personal stories can sometimes be overlooked. Yet, it is these narratives that can serve as a crucial bridge between cold, hard facts and the human experiences they represent.

As ESAs advocate for better educational policies and practices at statehouses across the country, it is essential to recognize that while data provides the backbone of our arguments, personal stories give them heart and soul. They are the connective tissue. By weaving together compelling personal stories with statistics, ESAs and their networks can create an advocacy approach that resonates with both policymakers and the public at-large.

The combination of storytelling and data not only humanizes complex education policy and implementation issues but also provides context to the numbers, making advocacy efforts more relatable, memorable, and ultimately, more effective. In this month’s State Examiner Advocacy Tip, we'll explore how personal stories can amplify data-driven arguments and inspire meaningful change in K-12 education.

SHARE YOUR ADVOCACY SUCCESS STORIES

 AESA would like to highlight successful state-level advocacy campaigns. Share your triumphs in state advocacy with fellow members! Contribute to our newsletter by submitting your success stories – your experiences can enlighten and inspire others in navigating the often complex landscape of state advocacy. Together, we can amplify our collective knowledge for the benefit of the entire AESA membership. Send your stories to jwade@aesa.us.

 STAY CONNECTED & INVOLVED

Have feedback for the AESA State Advocacy Team? Would you like to see a particular issue area addressed in future editions? Send feedback to jwade@aesa.us.

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