A coalition of classroom educators, school leaders, parents, advocates, and employers.
We are nonprofit and community leaders committed to the promise of equitable and high quality public education. We focus on ensuring that students and their families—especially those who have been systemically marginalized—have the access, information and tools they need and deserve to thrive in school and prepare for success in college and careers.
Dedicated to projects that will ensure academic equity.
Coalition Members
“We need a high, statewide standard. Students, families, and employers need to know what a diploma represents. And without that baseline, it’s always the most vulnerable students who don’t get what they need.”
Coalition Facilitator
Jill Norton
Jill is the founding facilitator of MassPotential’s Voices for Academic Equity coalition and also facilitates the Mass Reads Coalition. She launched Clark Street Consulting to support nonprofit and state agency leaders with policy advising, facilitation support, and research capacity in the early childhood and K-12 sectors. She is the former director of education policy at Abt Associates, where she led projects for the Massachusetts Departments of Elementary and Secondary Education and Early Education and Care. She served as a senior policy advisor in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Education under three secretaries of education. Prior to joining state government, Jill was the Executive Director of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy where she collaborated with state agencies and legislators to provide highly usable policy research to inform state decision-making on building 21st-century skills, revising state assessments, reforming school discipline policies, and identifying best practices in special education and for English learners. Jill began her career as a public school teacher and Montessori preschool teacher.