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Policy The Future of Assessment and Accountability | Part 2| Rethinking Accountability: Risk and Opportunity

Last month, NPU’s Charlie Barone shared concerns about the future of federal guardrails for state assessment systems after attending ...

Press Releases National Parents Union Statement on the Dangerous Shift of Special Education to the Department of Health and Human Services

March 21, 2025, Boston, MA – National Parents Union President Keri Rodrigues released the following statement in response to the ...

Polling Letter to Secretary McMahon on behalf of the National Parents Union

March 21, 2025 The Honorable Linda McMahon Secretary of Education U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington, D.C. ...

Policy Student Achievement in the States Led by Governors at the White House Today 

Republican Governors from at least 8 states- Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia – are slated to ...

Policy The Urgent Threat to Federal Education Protections

Today, the Trump Administration is sending education back to the states. Every parent in America should be alarmed. The U.S. Department of ...

Policy Parents Deserve Real Choices, Not Empty Promises: Expanding Public and Accountable School Choice

By Keri Rodrigues, President, National Parents Union The state of education in America is at a crisis point, and as parents we are ...

Policy The Future of Assessment and Accountability | Part 1 | Goodbye Federal Assessment Guardrails?

By Charles Barone, National Parents Union Senior Director of the Center for Innovation Many of us in the education policy world attended ...

Policy Protecting New York’s Students: A Call to Action for Lawmakers

Protecting New York’s Students: A Call to Action for Lawmakers By Ashara Baker, New York State Director, National Parents Union For ...

Policy National Parents Union Releases New Paper: “Preparing Massachusetts Kids for a Bright Future”

Boston, MA – Today, the National Parents Union (NPU) is proud to announce the release of a new paper titled “Preparing Massachusetts ...

Policy 2025 Parent Power Agenda