ORGANIZATIONS WORKING ON THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION
Access Network
A national initiative that seeks to strengthen the links between school finance litigation, public engagement, and the standards-based reform movement
Council of Educational Facility Planners
A professional association, whose mission is to improve the places where children learn; members include individuals, institutions and corporations involved in planning, designing, building, equipping and maintaining schools and colleges.
International Human Rights Internship Program and International Budget Project have produced the guide "Reading the Books: Government Budgets and the Right to Education". It has been developed primarily for human rights groups that focus oneducation, to assist them in adding budget work to their research and advocacytools, and for applied budget groups that are concerned about education budgetsand interested in using a human rights framework in that work.
National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities
The NCEF provides information on planning, designing, funding, building, improving, and maintaining schools. It was created by the U.S. Department of Education in 1997.
Right to Education Project
The Right to Education Project (RTE) is a public access human rights resource started by Katarina Tomasevski, the first ever Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, after her appointment in 1998.
UNESCO Education for All
The Education for All movement took off at the World Conference on Education for All in 1990. Since then, governments, non-governmental organizations, civil society, bilateral and multilateral donor agencies and the media have taken up the cause of providing basic education for all children, youth and adults.
NEW YORK SPECIFIC LINKS ON EDUCATION
Independent Commission on Public Education
New York City Department of Education
New York University Institute for Education and Social Policy