The ACOE Policy Committee is a 15-member advisory group of leaders from each ACOE department that meets monthly, and more often as needed, to:

The Committee has developed a three-tiered approach to vetting policy proposals that come to ACOE's attention to recommend a policy position for Cabinet and the Superintendent to consider. We apply the following criteria, as well as topic-specific expertise, to make our recommendation to ACOE leaders:

• Promote policy positions aligned with our mission
• Increase staff engagement in policy
• Support policy information-sharing across departments
• Ensure understanding of policies
• Alignment with ACOE 2023 legislative platform
• Alignment with ACOE mission, vision, principles, values, goals
• ACOE leadership in the area
• ACOE capacity
• Opportunity
• Relevance/salience of issue
• Potential partners (who else is taking a position), constituent feedback
• Public relations, optics, message the position conveys
• Impact ACOE can have on the policy
• Impact the policy can have on staff, students, institutions, funding, equity
• Timeline to implement

If you have a policy that you would like the Policy Committee to vet please complete this form