The Network for Public Education spent nearly two years developing the 50-state report card on “Valuing Education.”
NPE issued a “request for proposals,” and the winning team of researchers was headed by Professor Francesca Lopez of the University of Arizona. Every statistic comes from reputable sources. Its conclusions are based on facts, not ideology or opinions.
Our public schools enroll nearly 90% of the children in the US. We cannot continue on a path of treating public schools as obsolete and unworthy of support. If policymakers neglect the public schools, they neglect the one institution that reaches the vast majority of children in the US. Our schools must embrace sound and evidence-based policies and cease the fruitless pursuit of market-based fantasies.
You can help. How? Download the report and give copies to your school board members, your local and state superintendent, and your legislators, both in the state legislature and in Congress. Make sure a copy goes to your mayor and other local and state elected officials. Send copies to your local newspapers. Make sure that the opinion makers and opinion molders are aware that there is a very different way to view schools, one that is based on evidence, not on failed policies of testing and privatization. If we fail to support our public schools, we fail to support our children and our future.
We need your help! Please let me know that we can count on you.
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IMO, each of us owe a debt, to our nation. It is our responsibility to stop the destruction of U.S. democracy, manifest in the privatization of public education. The Network for Public Education asks us to disseminate an important document. Let’s reply by sending it out to as many places and, as many people, as we can
“Human capital pipeline”, is the description of Gates-funded organizations, for OUR schools.
In a book, by Maria Semple, reviewed by Jonathan Franzen, there is this statement, “There are maps on every wall, which is perfectly normal, right, for businesses to have a map on the wall showing their territories or distribution routes? Well, on Microsoft’s walls are maps of the world, and in case you’re still unclear about their dominion, under the maps are the words: THE WORLD. The day I realized their goal was WORLD DOMINATION, I was…”.
We know Microsoft announced a deal with Pearson to create products for Common Core. We know the website for Bridge International Academies lists Gates (not his foundation) is an “investor” in for-profit schools-in-a-box, which the World Bank, reportedly, promotes to the exclusion of tax-supported education.
All of us have an OBLIGATION, to stop corporate domination of democracy. Encourage others to join the fight !
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In addition to community organization and school board outreach, described by Laura Chapman and Diane, newspaper reporters are easy to reach, by e-mail. An internet search of the “(newspaper’s name) education reporter” provides e-mail addresses. Linking the article, with an attached brief statement works, e.g. , “The linked report, two years in the making, was just published. It provides grade cards by state, to inform the public about each state’s commitment to public education.”
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THANK YOU, Diane and NPE.
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