One Big Idea: Tillie Elvrum on Funding Students Over Systems

If you could share One Big Idea to change the future of education, what would it be? 

In the ninth episode of Future of School’s One Big Idea series, our guest is Tillie Elvrum, an education advocacy pioneer with experience at the state and national level. With a background in communications, early childhood education, and personal experience as a parent advocate, Tillie specializes in grassroots organizing, parent engagement, school choice policy, and innovative education models. She is co-founder and administrator of Parent Support for Online Learning. 

Tillie shares her big idea about changing the way K-12 education is funded in the U.S. She proposes funding students rather than systems, meaning that the funding for education would be put into the hands of parents, enabling them to make the decision they feel is best regarding the learning environment that suits their child. As Tillie describes it, this idea would empower students and parents, and may also lead to a new level of personalization in learning. 

What’s your One Big Idea to transform education? Connect with us on social media or on our website, www.futureof.school, to share! Follow Future of School on Twitter @futureof_school and follow Amy Valentine @amyvalentine555.

Learn more about Future of School and its mission to mobilize change in American K-12 education from a one-size-fits-all system to one that ensures all students reach their unbounded potential no matter where their learning takes place at www.futureof.school.

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