ASTL is a national coalition that works across the twenty-plus federal-grant trust-lands states. Our work runs across four complementary surfaces — the Briefing Room for state-level reporting, The Ledger for the receipts behind the work, the State Tracker for the comparative reform record. The shorter routes in — the 90-second explainer and the Field Notes — are the doors most new visitors come through.
The institutional history
ASTL did not start in 2024 when it took its present name. It started in another form in the 1990s, as the Children's Land Alliance Supporting Schools — CLASS for short — and the work CLASS did across two decades is the substrate our current work rests on.
Read our institutional history → Our Roots in CLASS
Proven results
ASTL's record includes concrete results from principled trust-land advocacy: a full-market hunting valuation that produced about $1.8 million annually for school trust lands, a stopped $5 million grazing-refund loss through an Attorney General opinion, and Utah Permanent State School Fund growth from about $1 billion to nearly $4 billion in six years after the call for independent professional oversight.
Contact and governance
General ASTL contact: 801-600-0052 and toniaday@schooltrustlands.org. This is the ASTL contact address.
Governance and social links: current bylaws, LinkedIn, and Facebook.