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Education Funding Report Roundup

Community Organizations

By Nirvi Shah — June 07, 2011 1 min read
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A by the National Commission on Civic Investment in Public Education calls on the nation’s 19,000 community-based public education assistance organizations to better channel their resources to help schools cope with dwindling public funding.

Such groups include booster clubs, parent-teacher groups, high school alumni associations, and scholarship funds.

The report describes what districts, prospective donors, and the public can expect from them.

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A version of this article appeared in the June 08, 2011 edition of Education Week as Community Organizations

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