ASCD's policy newsletter, Policy Priorities, reflects the purpose of this quarterly policy publication, which is to provide background and context for critical, timely education policy issues.

Administrators, teachers, families, policymakers, journalists, and others read Policy Priorities to better inform the decisions they make and the work they do.

Policy Priorities published four times each year, with the final issue publishing online only in Spring 2018.

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Current Issue

ASCD and Education Policy: 75 Years of Leadership

For most of the 20th century, most U.S. public schools operated under a system of legally sanctioned racial segregation. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected that framework with Brown v. Board of Education, followed by 1975 legislation that guaranteed a free, appropriate public education for students with disabilities. Still, the United States struggles to educate an increasingly diverse and less affluent K–12 student population. This issue of Policy Priorities reviews achievements by educator advocates, supported and informed by ASCD over 75 years, to enact significant legislative and legal changes to the nation's public education system that benefit all children. For its final issue, Policy Priorities delves into the reasons for this state of affairs and prospects for change.

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• Check out ASCD's Legislative Agenda (PDF) with the association’s annual policy goals.
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