The Network for Public Action Fund is delighted to endorse Larry Proffitt, veteran educator, for a seat in the Tennessee Legislature.
The Network for Public Education Action is proud to endorse long-time education activist and teacher Larry Proffitt for the Tennessee House, District 66.
Here is why Larry is campaigning for the seat:
”I’m running to try to stem the tide against the toxic testing that allows for the privatization argument in my state. I’ve given up 10 years of snow days visiting the legislature to oppose the charter and voucher legislation in Tennessee.
My opponent has taken DeVos, Koch, and Tennesseans For Student Learning First (former Students 1st). He supports the state charter authorizer that may overrule our local school board’s denial of a charter on whose board his daughter sits and is under investigation in Nashville.
It is time teachers took the lead in policy instead of just complaining. I will not sit back and let others form policy about my students and peers without a fight!”
We urge you to vote on November 6 for Larry Proffitt, teacher, Tennessee BAT, and candidate for TN House District 66.
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Thank goodness for Mr. Proffitt and those like them who wish to take political action against “toxic testing.”
BTW, Education Week, which thinks of itself as the premier education news reporting vehicle in the country carries, today, a report with the following lead to its headline story: “Rising rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide in children are manifesting in schools.”
The hypocrites. It does this after having spent years now pushing the “standards-and-testing” regimen that has turned our K-12 schools into test prep organizations and put kids in a pressure cooker in which success on the test has replaced humane joy in learning. Shame on the Vichy collaborationists with stack rankers at Ed Week and other education institutions. What a horror they have wrought!
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Bob,
I share your feelings about Educatuon Week. It began as the newspaper of record. It has typically had stellar journalists and still does. But the corporate leadership of EdWeek turned to Walton and tech corporations for funding and began shilling for tech, uncritical of privatization, and a forceful advocate for testing. Very sad.
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Thnaks. I am voting on Saturday. For the first time in my life.
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Great!!
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