We work to guarantee every child a meaningful educational opportunity to graduate from high school prepared for college, careers, and engaged civic participation. We use legal advocacy, academic research, and collective action to achieve foundational change.
The Center aims to establish a right to meaningful educational opportunity under state constitutions in New York and throughout the country through research, advocacy, consultancy and filing pathbreaking educational reform litigations.
The Center provides dependable research and analysis to support nationwide efforts to establish strong state constitutional rights to education through advocacy and/or litigation and to secure the funding needed to uphold those rights for all students. For example, through SchoolFunding.Info, the Center provides up-to-date information for those seeking a national perspective on state-based school funding litigation, education-finance reform, and related issues.
The Center founded and convenes DemocracyReady NY, a nonpartisan, multigenerational, statewide coalition that advocates collectively for improvements in education policy and practice to ensure all New York students are prepared for civic participation.