About Us

The Statewide Education Organizing Committee, Inc., (SEOC) is made up of public school parents and community leaders from urban and low-income school districts who have come together to work and fight for improvements in the education system. 


Why we must organize
We must organize because our schools are suffering.  SEOC was formed because the state never fully implemented the promises the NJ Supreme Court made to public school children under the Abbott v. Burke court decisions.  In too many low-income districts, our children are not yet getting the high quality education they deserve and need.

We believe our children’s education is too important to leave to teachers, administrators and school boards alone.  An informed, organized and persistent voice of parents and community leaders is needed.  SEOC is creating that voice and YOU are invited to join us.

SEOC has chapters in Newark, Jersey City, Asbury Park, and Paterson, with individual members in Plainfield and other school districts.  SEOC’s organizers and leaders are available to help you build parent power in your district.


Parents must be the leaders
SEOC is based on the premise that only the organized voice of parents and neighbors of the children in Abbott districts have the direct interest, passion,  expertise and potential numbers needed to drive the movement for school reform over the long term.