Who We Are Now – 2020

Sunshine Advocacy is a consulting service established in 2014 and led by Peter Phillips, a 40-year veteran. Sunshine Advocacy has provided organizing and public policy consultation in housing, healthcare, and economic justice campaigns. Currently the scope of work includes public education reform and support of the charter school movement.

The charter school movement, while benefitting over 3 million students in the US, is constantly under attack as a wrong-headed reform movement to siphon tax dollars from public education and benefit the wealthy. The authentic voice of organized parents and students is the best way to fight these attacks and hold policy makers accountable to charter state policies. Parents are more than willing to fight for their students’ education when they are given the political knowledge and organizational tools to speak in a unified voice to decision makers. Organized parents are also foundational to supporting at home learning and school community recognition.