Public Education Network
Public Education Network (PEN) is a national organization of local education funds (LEFs) and individuals working to improve public schools and build citizen support for quality public education in low-income communities across the nation. PEN believes an active, vocal constituency is the key to ensuring that every child, in every community, benefits from a quality public education. PEN and its members are building public demand and mobilizing resources for quality public education on behalf of 11.5 million children in more than 1600 school districts in 33 states and the District of Columbia. In 2004, PEN welcomed its first international member, which serves almost 300,000 children in the Philippines.

Our Vision
Every day, in every community, every child in America benefits from a quality public education.

Our Mission
To build public demand and mobilize resources for quality public education for all children through a national constituency of local education funds and individuals.

Special Thanks
Public Education Network gratefully acknowledges the following funders for their invaluable support of the national NCLB hearings.

The Wallace Alexander
Gerbode Foundation

The George Gund
Foundation

The James Irvine Foundation

Nellie Mae Education
Foundation

New York Community Trust

Open Society Institute


We are deeply grateful for the guidance and support from the following, without whom our national hearings could not have been
visualized or realized:

Anne Lewis, education policy writer and author of the NCLB national
and state reports.

Ron Cowell, executive director, Education Policy and Leadership Center, Pennsylvania

CommunicationWorks, LLC

PEN Project Coordinator:
Andrea Grenadier

Our Designer:
Kelly Griffith,
rightbraincreative
kelly@rightbraincreative.net