About Us

Communities for Public Education Reform (CPER) supports the growing field of education organizing through grants and technical assistance to community organizations working to ensure that parents and students have a strong voice in shaping the policies that affect their public schools. By bringing new resources to at least four sites for a minimum of three years, CPER promotes innovation and supports systemic reforms that address educational inequities.

CPER seeks to:

• Increase the visibility of and support for effective education-organizing strategies at the local, state and national levels
  
• Leverage local dollars with national funds

• Engage in mutual learning and strategizing

• Facilitate collaboration among the grant partners to form a more strategically connected group with a related set of messages and stories; and

• Encourage the emergence of new voices in the public discourse around public-education reform

CPER facilitates collaboration between local and national funders and grantees, infuses local organizing campaigns with additional resources and helps equip community-based, democratically led organizations to push for policies - at the local, state and national level - that improve the quality of education provided to low-income students of color.