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\n<\/b>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInRight”]LEXINGTON, KY –\u00a0Eight years ago, the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence committed to positioning Kentucky students as education policy, advocacy and research partners by co-creating the Student Voice Team. Since that time, the team has engaged thousands of students and other education stakeholders from across the Commonwealth to ensure conversations about education policy are student-centered.<\/p>\n
Today, Prichard Committee President and CEO Brigitte Blom Ramsey announced that after years of solid incubation, the Student Voice Team is spinning off from the Prichard Committee to become a fully independent organization, now known as the Kentucky Student Voice Team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn eight years\u2019 time and with a $1 million investment by the Prichard Committee, the Student Voice Team established itself as a national exemplar of student voice in research and advocacy to improve our schools,\u201d said Blom Ramsey. \u201cWe are proud of everything they\u2019ve accomplished and excited to see the effort grow as a fully independent and student-led organization.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Student Voice Team\u2019s notable achievements include:<\/p>\n
Rachel Belin, the director and co-founder of the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team, has moved into a new role with the Kentucky Student Voice Team, as its managing partner. She shared that \u200bthe Kentucky Student Voice Team will double down on its efforts as a youth-led organization, to help ensure the Commonwealth\u2019s schools are as equitable, engaging, and excellent as they can be. Belin underscored that the team will continue to amplify the voices, experiences, and struggles of all Kentucky students, speaking truth to power, collaborating across differences, thinking critically, and fighting for education justice in the process.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have created a community and constituency around this work and transformed the ways in which policymakers and the general public alike understand the role and contributions of students to our own education system,\u201d said co-director and high school senior Emanuelle Sippy. \u201cAs a result of our efforts, education policymakers are seeking authentic, meaningful student input and students have a seat at more and more decision-making tables. We\u2019re incredibly grateful to be furthering this work as we begin our journey as an independent non-profit, centering not only young people in general, but particularly those who are least heard in our schools and society.\u201d<\/p>\n
Learn more about the Kentucky Student Voice Team at\u00a0kystudentvoiceteam.org<\/a>\u00a0or on social media @kystuvoiceteam.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][wyde_separator el_width=”80%”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]For More Information Contact: [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image alignment=”center” image=”12392″ animation=”fadeInUp”][vc_empty_space][wyde_heading subheading_tag=”h3″ style=”2″ title=”Prichard Committee Student Voice Team spins off as independent non-profit, becomes the Kentucky Student Voice Team” animation=”slideInLeft”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInLeft”]February 5, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInRight”]LEXINGTON, KY –\u00a0Eight years ago, the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence committed to positioning Kentucky students as education policy, advocacy and research partners by co-creating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"passster_activate_protection":false,"passster_protect_child_pages":"","passster_protection_type":"password","passster_password":"","passster_activate_overwrite_defaults":"","passster_headline":"","passster_instruction":"","passster_placeholder":"","passster_button":"","passster_id":"","passster_activate_misc_settings":"","passster_redirect_url":"","passster_hide":"no","passster_area_shortcode":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-press-release"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6046,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions\/6046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJessica Fletcher<\/strong>, Senior Director, Communications & External Affairs
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