In 2025, Alabama passed the RAISE Act, redesigning its three-decade-old school funding formula and directing more resources to the students who need them most. These changes leveled the playing field for students in Alabama — and highlighted how education finance shapes what’s possible for schools and students in every state.

Join Bellwether for a conversation with the leaders who helped shape this reform. It explores the conditions, coalition-building, and political strategy that transformed ideas into policy, the challenges and opportunities that come with implementation, and what other states tackling reform can learn from the work in Alabama.

Featuring:

• Mark Dixon, President, A+ Education Partnership
• Corinn O’Brien, Vice President of Policy, A+ Education Partnership
• Bonnie O’Keefe, Partner, Bellwether
• Jennifer O’Neal Schiess, Senior Partner & Head of Portfolios, Bellwether