For over 150 years, the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) has been committed to developing and advocating for high-quality school systems for students of color and low-income students throughout the South. Policymakers, including those both elected or appointed to critical state and local positions, maintain tremendous influence over the quality of state education systems. Specifically, state lawmakers, board members, and superintendents develop budgets, select school improvement strategies, identify curriculums, as well as set the overall strategy of the state for education in their respective roles. As such, Southern Education Foundation (SEF), supported by its community partners and district leaders, has offered a slate of federal, state, and local recommendations that aim to improve the education quality for Black, Brown, and low-income students in the southern region. SEF has outlined four key issue areas (Education Reform, School Governance, School Finance, and School Choice) and developed the accompanying policy recommendations herein for state and federal lawmakers to adopt, as well as for grassroots advocates to support. The hope is that this living document serves as a guidepost to advancing research-based SEF education policy in the South.