Are you aware that PRIVATIZATION for PROFIT is well underway in schools, city governments, transportation, etc. in Georgia? People are being elected to office with these ends in mind, are financed by for-profit entities and are soft selling decisions to authorize this movement…
Are you aware of the dire effects of allowing the proliferation of this movement to continue to grow in capacity?
THIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT SCHOOLS…
JOIN US FOR A FREE SCREENING
This feature-length documentary is a free screening and open to the public. No children please as space is limited.
When
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
7:00 pm – Film Screening
8:30 pm – Q&A Discussion
Where
Porter Sanford Performing Arts & Community Center
3181 Rainbow Drive
Decatur, GA 30034
Join the Georgia Federation of Teachers, JEEPAC and the NAACP DeKalb Chapter for a screening of Backpack Full of Cash.
This documentary narrated by Matt Damon, a Cambridge, MA public school graduate, takes an urgently-needed look at how charter schools, vouchers and the privatization movement are threatening the nation’s public schools. In the wake of the 2016 presidential elections and the appointment of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, as well as the installation of a pro-charter majority of the Atlanta Public School Board, BACKPACK is timelier than ever. Filmed in Philadelphia, New Orleans, Nashville and other cities, BACKPACK takes viewers through the tumultuous 2013-14 school year, exposing the world of corporate-driven education “reform” where public education — starved of resources — hangs in the balance. Backpack puts a human face on complex social, racial and civic issues confronting educators, students, families, and our communities. Backpack serves as a tool to show how other communities are fighting back against an effort to privatize public education.
The documentary also showcases a model for improving schools – a well-resourced public school system in Union City, New Jersey, where poor kids are getting a high quality education without charters or vouchers. BACKPACK FULL OF CASH makes the case for public education as a basic civil right.
The film features genuine heroes like the principals, teachers, activists, parents and most hearteningly, students who are fighting for their education. Former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch, writer David Kirp and policy expert Linda Darling Hammond are among the national thought leaders who provide analysis in the film.
This feature-length documentary is a free event and open to the public.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
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I am now reading Anthony Cody’s book, The Educator and the Oligarch published by Garn Press. WOWZER book.
Finished: First Do No Harm by Steve Nelson (Garn Press) and this is another book, which should be read by everyone.
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I hope that conscientious educators in Canada will sponsor this movie to show to Canadian Public schools in K-12 system.
We all know that the earlier parents and students are alert and aware those corrupted and sneaky corporate, the better and safer public education system will be. Most of all, country will be well protected and citizens will definitely live in the true democracy.
In short, American young generation will teach and eliminate all corrupted politicians and all sneaky corporate through their powerful and decisive VOTE IN 2020.
MONEY CANNOT BUY YOUNG AMERICAN GENERATION FREE SPIRIT IN HUMANITY AS WELL AS CANNOT DESTROY AMERICAN FREE LEARNING IN K-12 SYSTEM. back2basic
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