Ethan Hutt
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Ethan Hutt 2005 fellow
Bold Idea
Engage and empower America’s youth in a national movement for quality education.
Organization
Our Education is the voice of young people across the country who believe that all American children should have access to high quality education. It was created as a response to the sad reality that the most critical stakeholders in education—students themselves—do not have a voice in school reform efforts.
Biography
Ethan Hutt is a graduate of public schools in Santa Monica, California. During his junior year at Santa Monica High School, the district school board threatened to renege on a promise of funding for the construction of a new set of classrooms to alleviate the schools overcrowding problem. Ethan led a group of his fellow students and a number of parents to the school board and demanded that the money be used for its originally promised purpose. When the board saw the large turnout of students and parents, and heard the passionate remarks delivered by Ethan, his classmates, and many parents, it decided to allocate the money in accordance with the groups wishes. Today, those classrooms stand as a testament to the power of collective action and the potential of young people when they demand change. Ethan is co-founder of Our Education, which builds and empowers the student voice in education reform.
