Empower Schools’ 2024-25 Annual Report shares progress, partnerships, and impact from a year of work with communities, school systems, policymakers, and partners. As Empower’s annual report highlights work across Innovation Schools, Rural Collaboratives, and Early College and Career Pathways..

Empower Schools’ Apprenticeship and Rural Colorado report explores how youth apprenticeship can expand college and career pathways, strengthen local talent pipelines, and support economic development in rural communities. The report highlights apprenticeship models, employer roles, healthcare pathways, and the role Rural Collaboratives can play as regional intermediaries.

Pathways to College and Career outlines a statewide collaboration model for expanding access to college and career pathways across Colorado. The report focuses on the Homegrown Talent Coalition, shared data, policy alignment, pathway implementation, and the conditions needed to help more students earn credentials, college credit, and work-based learning.

Ten Years of Empowerment is Empower Schools’ retrospective magazine celebrating a decade of work with communities across the country. The resource shares Empower’s story, timeline, partnerships, and evolution as an organization supporting school system innovation, policy change, and expanded student opportunity.

Elevating Rural Colorado shares five years of investment, learning, and partnership focused on improving outcomes for rural students and communities in Colorado. The report highlights lessons from rural education work, regional collaboration, and efforts to strengthen opportunity through local capacity, shared strategy, and sustained support.

Support for Rural Colorado Schools examines how philanthropy and districts came together to serve students during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The resource highlights the needs of rural Colorado schools, promising practices from early responses, and opportunities for funders to support rural communities.

Autonomous District Schools examines how U.S. school districts can create autonomous district schools that provide flexibility, accountability, and innovation at scale. The report explores how autonomous district school models differ from traditional district and charter schools and what districts should consider when designing them.

From Innovation Schools to an Innovation Zone in Denver, Colorado explores the design features of Innovation Zones and the early development of Denver’s model. The resource highlights how school-level autonomy, governance, and partnership structures can help protect innovation inside public school systems.

The “City of Firsts” Charts a New Path on Turnaround examines the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership as a turnaround strategy and governance model in Springfield, Massachusetts. The resource explores how SEZP created a new path for school improvement through autonomy, accountability, and partnership.