Are districts setting teachers up with professional learning opportunities that will allow them to navigate the pandemic successfully?
Travis Pillow

Travis Pillow is the editorial director at the Center on Reinventing Public Education. He started his career as a journalist based in Florida’s capitol, covering politics, budgets, health care, and education policy for several online publications and Gannett newspapers. He later became editor of redefinED, a website chronicling the new definition of public education in Florida and elsewhere, and did other policy and communications work for Step Up For Students, the nonprofit that administers two of the nation’s largest private school choice programs.
This report includes in-depth case studies of five Washington State charter schools to understand their strategies for full inclusion...
Two briefs provide a summary of the special education landscape in New Orleans and Washington, D.C., and offer recommendations for further steps that might be taken to strengthen the cities’ support...
This report is the first step in developing an evidence base about how charter schools meet the needs of unique learners, how they can improve in this work, and what aspects of chartering as a governance model support...
This report examines how New Orleans education officials have managed the return of nearly all of the city’s public schools to the control of the local elected school board for the first time since the state takeover of public...
This essay explores how an education system built to meet the needs of “square pegs” could benefit all students.
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Nearly two months into our nationwide tracking effort, most of the 82 school districts we reviewed provide some form of instruction.
States play critical roles in driving school and district responses to school closures prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined whether and how states are fulfilling that role.
As a new CRPE research brief shows, homeschoolers are becoming more diverse, and so are their motivations.
With unemployment at a historic low, now is the time to focus on those who have been historically underemployed.
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