Connect with one of the many organizations seeking to fulfill the right to education in the United States.

Achieve Inc.
Created by the nation's governors and business leaders, Achieve helps states raise academic standards and achievement so that all students graduate ready for college, work, and citizenship.

American Association of University Women
Advocates for equity in education for women and girls and fights discrimination and harassment in schools.

Association for Women in Mathematics
Encourages and supports the involvement of women and girls in the mathematical sciences.

Broad Foundation
Seeks to improve K-12 public education by reforming the current system, encouraging change, and supporting successful new ideas.

Children’s Defense Fund
The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) studies the lives of American children and the challenges they face. Their research informs Leave No Child Behind, a movement to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start.

Center for Education Policy
The Center is a national, independent advocate for public education and for more effective public schools. They help Americans better understand the role of public education in a democracy and the need to improve the academic quality of public schools.

Citizen’s Commission on Civil Rights
CCCR works to ensure equal access to education for all students regardless of race, disability, socioeconomic status or English proficiency. 

Communities for Quality Education
Communities for Quality Education, a national education advocacy group, seeks to build a partnership between people inside and outside the education community who share the common goal of building better public schools for every child.

MDRC
MDRC is a nonpartisan social policy research organization dedicated to learning what works to improve the well-being of low-income people. They seek to enhance the effectiveness of social policies and programs.

National Archives for Educators and Students
Provides information about the history of the U.S. along with lesson plans and activities. 

National Association for Multicultural Education
NAME works to ensure that all students receive an equitable education and strives to fight the injustices in our schools and in the community.

National Coalition for Equity in Education
NCEE aims to identify and promote practices and policies in educational settings that support human learning and develop strategies to eliminate those practices and policies that injure people and interfere with their learning.

National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
NESRI works with organizers, policy advocates and legal organizations to incorporate a human rights perspective into their work and build human rights advocacy models tailored for the United States.

National Education Association
A volunteer based organization that works at the local, state and national levels representing the interests of public schools.

Parents for Public Schools
Works in public schools and communities nationwide to improve education primarily through encouraging parental involvement.

Quality Education for Minorities
The QEM Network is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the education of minorities. Millions of dollars, now spent for remedial purposes, could be made available for the educational benefit of all children and youth by improving the quality of education available to the groups targeted by QEM. Quality education for minorities improves the quality of education for all.

SoundOut
SoundOut is a nonprofit program promoting student voice in school. They have partnered with more than 75 K-12 schools and districts across the country, providing programs, training and technical assistance on student voice.