Ten Years of Empowerment
Join us in celebrating a decade of empowerment. Read our retrospective magazine to discover our timeline and learn how we work with communities across the United States to advance school system innovation and policy change.
Elevating Rural Colorado
Empower Schools wrote this white paper in collaboration with key partners to capture how five years of investment is elevating rural outcomes in Colorado.
Support for Rural Colorado Schools
Bellwether’s case study, identifies promising practices from funders’ early responses to the pandemic and pinpoint the most urgent needs of rural districts today, nearly two years after schools first closed their doors.
Autonomous Schools: A New Path to Growing High-Quality, Innovative Public Schools
This report from Public Impact considers how U.S. school districts increasingly create autonomous district schools to give their schools the flexibility afforded to charter schools, in an effort to provide high-quality, innovative, and diverse public schools at scale.
From Innovation Schools to an Innovation Zone
This article is part of a Bridgespan Group research project that focuses on exploring the design features of “Innovation Zones”
SEZP, “City of Firsts” Profiled in New Installment of CRPE
The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership and the people involved in its design and initial implementation take center stage in a new paper by Ashley Jochim of The Center on Reinventing Public Education.