State Policy Assessment Tool for Building Equitable Pathways
February 9, 2023
At a Glance
JFF and the Building Equitable Pathways (BEP) Policy and Advocacy strand created an assessment tool that members of the BEP community of practice and organizations throughout the field can use to review existing and proposed policies of their state’s legislative and governing entities to determine the extent to which their state policy environment aligns to the framework and, thus, provides conducive conditions for building equitable pathways.
State Policy Framework for Building Equitable Pathways
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