ELC Unveils New Strategic Plan Addressing Challenges in Public Education and Student Rights
Education Law Center is proud to introduce our latest strategic plan covering 2026-29. The plan maintains our staunch commitment to access, equity, opportunity, and justice for public school students in our home state of New Jersey and across the country. It also tackles recent and emerging threats and challenges from the federal government and from state policymakers around the nation.
As our 2023-25 plan neared sunset, we took the opportunity to re-examine our priorities, areas of work, and capacity. The new plan was developed through multiple staff-wide discussions and ELC board member input. It reflects the current education landscape but also what the future may hold. It plays to the strengths ELC has developed over more than 50 years of work, while also planning for necessary growth and improvement.
The plan opens with our vision, key principles, and theory of change. We outline our six core strategies for achieving our mission: community engagement, research, litigation, policy advocacy, communications, and strategic partnerships. Those topics are followed by a deep dive into our program areas with a discussion of strategic direction, capacity building, and measuring success. We emphasize our work in school funding, including against the diversion of public funds to private education uses, and student rights. And we explain our increasing focus on anti-education developments at the federal level.
“We’re proud of the lengthy process we engaged in and the resulting strategic plan,” said ELC Executive Director Robert Kim. “We look forward to engaging with community leaders, advocacy partners, and other supporters of public education as we implement this plan and address the ever more pressing work of protecting and strengthening our public education system now and in the future.”
Press Contact:
Sharon Krengel
Director of Policy, Strategic Partnerships and Communications
skrengel@edlawcenter.org
973-624-1815, x240