If you live in Ohio, or nearby, you should attend this meeting and learn how to resist the political forces that are harming children and public education.
Whether you’re a veteran organizer, board member, educator, student, or community member who believes that PUBLIC EDUCATION MATTERS, Public Education Partners (PEP) is presenting a statewide summit that will have practical and informative sessions that provide opportunities to connect, engage, and collaborate.
If you haven’t signed up for the 2015 PEP summit, PUBLIC EDUCATION MATTERS, please register soon.
This pro-public education event will be on Saturday, October 17th from 9:30am-2:30pm at John Sells Middle School, 150 W. Bridge Street, Dublin, Ohio 43017.
Open to all, but space is limited. Registration costs $15 and includes lunch.
Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-education-matters-tickets-18465904016?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_event_email&utm_term=viewmyevent_buttonInline image 1
The format will include a keynote presentation by Innovation Ohio’s education policy fellow Stephen Dyer, choices for two breakout sessions, and closing remarks by Ohio school superintendent Tom Dunn.
Box lunches will be provided.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Breakout sessions will run twice, and registrants choose one before lunch and one after lunch.
• Parents’ Rights – Legislative Options for Testing
• How to Organize a Community Event – Engaging the Public
• BATs – Efforts for Positive Change in Education
• Speak Up! Speak Out – Building Coalitions of Public Ed Activists
• Parent Power – Advocating for Your Public Schools
• Know Your Charter – Understanding How Charter Schools Work
• The Youngstown Plan – It Could Happen to You!
SCHEDULE
• 9:30 – 10:00am: Registration
• 10:00 – 11:00am: Introduction and Keynote with Stephen Dyer
• 11:10 – Noon: Breakout Session I
• 12:00 – 1:00pm: Lunch and Networking
• 1:00 – 1:50pm: Breakout Session II
• 2:00 – 2:30pm: “Connecting the Dots” with Tom Dunn
Please share the news about this upcoming event with others who also believe that PUBLIC EDUCATION MATTERS.
Hope to see you on October 17th!
Our mailing address is:
Public Education Partners
866 Beech Drive
Columbus, OH 43235
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I hope there is a meeting in Cincinnati.
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These are all very important topics in OH and could be coming to your state soon. GL to all my Ohio BAT buddies.
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Please make sure this gets to the Akron Beacon Journal (Doug Livingston). It will be seen by many of NE Ohio people who are passionate about our public schools. VERY happy to see this happening. Could it be repeated in NE Ohio, and other areas so more of us can attend?
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I sent this to Doug Livingston- Akron Beacon Journal and Patrick O’Donnell – Plain Dealer. Everyone from out of town, leave early Sat am and join us! We have plenty of folks coming from Toledo, Cincinnati, Dayton and Cleveland areas. This is an important Statewide Summit for all who believe Public Education Matters. By gathering organizers and concerned parents, educators, School board members and superintendents from across the entire state , we are sending the message to the politicians, the public, the press and the profiteers that enough is enough, our kids & public education are not for sale and we are ” on the march!”
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Can’t wait. This promises to be a great opportunity to network with people around the state who share our passion to save public education!!
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This sounds wonderful. As an Ohio teacher, it has been hard to observe all of the damage John Kasich has done to Ohio public schools. To now see him run for President of the U.S. is ridiculous. John Kasich is not for the middle class people. He wishes to take away our public schools and make it very difficult for all of us to get our children through college. I am a registered Republican, and I even can’t stand him. It will be a happy day for Ohio on the last day of John Kasich’s dictatorship.
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We had a great turnout for Public Education Partners’ Ohio summit, PUBLIC EDUCATION MATTERS! Activists from all over Ohio joined us to listen, learn, network, and plan actions in their local communities.
Eldon “Cap” Lee, a public education activist from North Carolina, attended PUBLIC EDUCATION MATTERS after reading about it on this blog.
Ohio BATs leader Kelly Ann Braun described the day well when she said,
“I felt like I was on an education vacation.”
THANKS to all who participated- we should all plan on meeting for another education vacation very soon!
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