The Second Annual Network for Public Education Conference Registration is Now Open!
Here is the master information page for all conference information:
Early-bird discounted Registration for the Network for Public Education’s Second Annual Conference is now available at this address:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/network-for-public-education-2015-annual-conference-tickets-15118560020
These low rates will last for the month of January.
The event is being held at the Drake Hotel in downtown Chicago, and there is a link on the registration page for special hotel registration rates. Here are some of the event details.
There will be a welcoming social event 7 pm Friday night, April 24, at or near the Drake Hotel — details coming soon.
Featured speakers will be:
Jitu Brown, National Director of the Journey for Justice Alliance, the NPE Board of Directors, and the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization.
Tanaisa Brown, High School Senior, Newark Student Union
Yong Zhao, Author, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?”
Diane Ravitch in Conversation with Lily Eskelsen Garcia and Randi Weingarten
Karen Lewis, President, Chicago Teachers Union
There will be a special optional luncheon on Saturday that will feature a conversation between Edushyster and surprise guests.
There will be dozens of workshops and panels offered by activists from coast to coast. Proposals for these sessions are being solicited by the NPE, and can be submitted here until the Jan. 20 deadline.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NPEChicagoSession
The organizers worked to make the conference as affordable as possible. Please be aware that the room reservations and food costs offset the use of the hotel space. This conference is priced as cheaply as possible so that the maximum number of people can attend. We are hoping to raise money to provide a limited amount of scholarships. Here is the link for the scholarship application: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NPEScholarship
If you would like to make a donation to allow others to attend who otherwise could not afford participating, please go here, and indicate that this is for the “NPE Conference Scholarship Fund” http://www.networkforpubliceducation.org/about-npe/become-a-member/
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I registered last night. I will share the information about the event.
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Dear Dr. Ravitch:
I would like to receive your input whether other people can attend this event if I am paying the tickets without any problem due to the different names in payer vs attendants.
I would like to treat Mrs Susan Lee Swartz, Krazy TA, and Duane Swacker for both days in this special Chicago Conference. ($75.00 x 3 = $225.00 + fee)
Or it would be the best way is that I will mail the money order of $500.00 US in your name to the address of NPE which you gave to your readers in the past, as follows:
Robin Hiller, Executive Director
C/O Dr. Diane Ravitch, President
Network for Public Education
P.O. Box 44200
Tucson, Az 85733
The difference between $500.00 and the cost for three people to attend both days will be my treat to you and your loved ones.
If one or all three designated people cannot attend for any reason, then these available tickets will be your choice to give away as you please. Happy New year and Best Wishes to you, your family, and your advocacy to preserve American Public Education for all children.
Very respectfully yours,
May King from Canada, your secret admirer.
Please note that I will mail this money order to you through NPE address before Friday, January 9, 2015.
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Dear May King from Canada,
That is VERY generous of you. I suggest you make direct contact with Robin Hiller, the executive director of NPE, at rhiller@voicesforeducation.org
Let her know what you want to do and she will work it out with you.
I will match your gift, so that some others can come to the Chicago meeting on scholarship.
Diane
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m4potw: words are inadequate to express my appreciation for your kind words.
I cannot attend the conference but will be following it from afar—and sending my own donation to the NPE Conference Scholarship Fund. Today. Right after I post this.
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If I may humbly suggest, use the part of the donation you were offering on my behalf to assist others that want to attend but find it difficult or impossible to do so because they simply don’t have the money.
I’ve been there. I know what it’s like. And it’s not a hand out; it’s a hand up.
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Your kindness emboldens me to ask the same of other viewers of this blog that are for a “better education for all”—
If you can’t go, and have the means to help others go, please contribute whatever you can, however large or small, to the NPE Conference Scholarship Fund.
It’s part of the collaboration that characterizes genuine learning and teaching:
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
And what would a heartfelt plea be without a very old and very dead and very Greek guy?
“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.” [Homer]
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“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” [Mother Teresa]
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Dear Dr. Ravitch and Krazy TA:
I sincerely appreciate North American Spirit in Democracy. This small donation is a token of my true appreciation that the very least I could do to show.
I hope that all conscientious American will unite and stand tall for humanity and democracy. Without this spirit, I have not had any hope to escape by a fragile wooden boat and survived twice in shipwreck (more accurately, broken sh**ty old wooden boat).
Through 37 years of hardship, I have become more humane in spirit that money and successful career cannot build. Yes, I would never imagine that I could risk my life and successfully live to enjoy freedom of expression and learning whatever I am interested in for life.
In conclusion, thank you for wonderful reminders from Krazy TA. I love to repeat them over and over that:
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” [Mother Teresa], and
“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.” [Homer].
I also love the principle of the below quote and and live by it:
“With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.”
William Lloyd Garrison was right then. He’s right now.(from : KrazyTA on November 29, 2014 at 3:02 pm in Mercedes Schneider: Is There Anyone in the U. S. Department of Education Who Believes in Public Education?)
Very respectfully yours,
May King from Canada.
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m4potw: all too often important matters get lost in translation.
Your generosity, though, is in a universal language:
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” [Mark Twain]
I hope it inspires others to be as giving to a good cause.
Most krazy props from your local neighborhood KrazyTA.
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