Dear John,

Today we're announcing Cohort VI of 50CAN's National Voices Fellowship for 2024.

Cohort VI joins the debate as the national education discourse continues to intensify. Later this year, as federal Covid-related relief funding expires, states and districts will need to make tough choices; choices that will determine how fast kids can catch up and how quickly we’re able to usher in the education systems of the future that families desire.

Against the backdrop of increasing political polarization our fellows are also committed to repairing the kinds of bipartisan relationships necessary to work collaboratively across partisan lines to find and champion the best ideas.

You’ll be hearing much more from them in the future, but for now I invite you to learn more about the leaders we’ll be working with over the year to come–one with both deep challenges and great opportunities–as we seek to SPARK the public will needed to fledge the education system of the future.