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Our Mission
Public Impact’s mission is to improve education dramatically for all students, especially low-income students, students of color, and other students whose needs historically have not been well met.
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Our DEI Commitment
We seek to recruit, develop, and retain a team that reflects the student population, and to work with our clients to ensure that all students have access to excellent teaching in equitably funded schools, with a diverse teaching workforce.
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Our Story
Founded in 1996, Public Impact aims to contribute to dramatic improvements in the quality of education and related policy supports in the United States by focusing on a core set of promising strategies for change.
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Our Team
We are on-the-ground changemakers, tool builders, researchers, thought leaders, and policy experts who work with education leaders. Most of our team members who work with schools are former K–12 educators.