Raise Your Hand Texas Launches Inaugural Community Leaders Fellowship, Empowering Local Teams to Advocate for Public Education
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Raise Your Hand Texas has announced the launch of its inaugural Community Leaders Fellowship, naming 29 grant awardees to its first cohort. As the premier program within the organization’s newly established Education Advocacy Academy, the Fellowship is the next evolution of the successful Trustee Advocates Program, expanding its reach to include a diverse coalition of community voices.
The Community Leaders Fellowship is an 18-month program designed to equip local teams — composed of parents, educators, business leaders, and school trustees — with the tools and skills necessary to find, use and amplify their voices in state education policy.
The following school districts have been selected as Grant Awardees for Cohort 1 of the Raise Your Hand Texas Community Leaders Fellowship:
Abilene ISD
Alamo Heights ISD
Arp ISD
Belton ISD
Canutillo ISD
Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD
Cedar Hill ISD
Cleburne ISD
Comanche ISD
Corpus Christi ISD
Eanes ISD
Early ISD
Granbury ISD
Gregory-Portland ISD
Harlingen CISD
Lake Dallas ISD
Lewisville ISD
Liberty Hill ISD
Lyford CISD
Martin’s Mill ISD
North Lamar ISD
Paris ISD
Plano ISD
Port Aransas ISD
San Marcos CISD
Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD
Shiner ISD
Splendora ISD
Wylie ISD (Taylor County)
For more information about the program, visit https://www.raiseyourhandtexas.org/advancing-public-education/advocacy-fellowship/ (clickable link in our bio).
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