Protecting Public Education & Helping to Advance a Vision to Shape the Future of Public Schools

Public Forums & Agenda Setting

LFA hosts forums to spotlight challenges facing the field and to elevate policies and best practices to strengthen public schools.

  • LFA’s convenings spotlight challenges, broker cross-disciplinary conversations, and provide a forum to incubate new ideas, research, and policy solutions.

  • In a fragmented ecosystem, LFA draws on its deep ties to the field and the 10 million members its organizations represent to speak with a unified voice to drive national conversations, shape policy debates, and reach key audiences.

Research & Policy

LFA supports research and policy development to align field needs with actionable policy to accelerate and deepen the impact of research and policy on practice.

  • LFA draws on its expansive reach in the field to identify pressing research needs and make findings accessible and actionable for federal and state policymakers, aligning research, policy and practice.

  • LFA facilitates best practice sharing among key education leaders, elevates new ideas and policy solutions to address field needs, and advances a policy agenda focused on shaping the next era of public schools.

Coordinated Communication

LFA develops media strategies to amplify messaging on the critical role public education plays in our communities and its vitality to a healthy democracy.

  • LFA employs an always-on communication campaign to mobilize support for public schools through earned and paid media strategies.

  • Public Schools Week, LFA’s premier communication event, includes convenings, policy actions, and media engagements focused on spotlighting public schools and celebrating educators nationwide.

Bipartisan Advocacy

LFA leverages its 10 million members to mobilize support for public schools, speaking with a unified voice to advance bipartisan solutions.

  • LFA draws on its deep ties to the field to shape K-12 policy issues, aligning policy, research and practice.

  • LFA works with both sides of the aisle to shape policies and federal actions affecting public education.

Our History

In the early years, LFA commissioned a number of research studies, creating work that guided the thinking of the field. Early publications included topics on reading and literacy; mathematics instruction for schools, teachers, and parents; safe and supportive learning communities; and recruitment and retention of effective teachers and administrators.