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The forces of privatization are rising up, making promises and failing to keep any of those promises.
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Whose schools? Our schools!
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Maybe the NPE Facebook page could collect some personal stories about “Why Public Schools Are Great.” Maybe some well known celebrities, scholars, sports people and politicians could read the testimonies of various people in a video that could be posted on Youtube. It is a way to generate from free publicity and get attention for public schools.
Good idea, retired teacher
With all the scandals, there could be another video on some of the wasted public funds spent on various charter frauds and embezzling schemes. It might give the public some idea about the scale of public funds that have been squandered in the charter industry. NPE posts these regularly on its Facebook page. A Youtube video could get the message out to the wider audience of taxpayers.
Signed the letter at the link.
Thanks to NPE for countering the billionaires’ narrative.
I have an idea, what if, in honor of Public Schools Week, we replaced the federal US officer with responsibility for public schools, Ditzy DeVos, with someone who actually supports public schools?
with someone who actually ATTENDED public non-magnet, non-selective-seat schools…
Signed
This school year STEM-CAN Supporters gave over $320,000 to southern AZ conventional neighborhood public schools funding almost 600 teacher proposed classroom projects each costing up to $600. This represents great growth from last year and we expect to do more next school year.
Los Angeles: send this to LAUSD Board Member Scott Shmerelson. He’s the good one. (And when we elect Jackie Goldberg in May, she’ll be the other good one.)
Just want to reiterate:
Whose schools? Our schools!
Under this proposal, we’d still have public schools in Massachusetts, well, maybe for some people, you know, the deserving ones. The rest of us will get INNOVATION! Governor Baker and his allies are coming at our schools every which way they can think of since the quest to eliminate a cap on charters was soundly defeated.
Jonathan Rodrigues is an organizer for ATF Massachusetts, formerly organizer for the Boston Teachers Union.
View at Medium.com
I asked MCEIA to schedule a concurrent session with their scheduled “New Accountability…” session on April 10. The concurrent session would focus on accountability for the billionaires taking over education.
MCEIA”s partners include BTU, and multiple unions. The reply from MCEIA management was we don’t have the “capacity” for another session. The manager speculated that the proposed session would be well attended. So why aren’t MCEIA’s partners forcing communities’ interest to be reflected in MCEIA programs?
Signed, and forwarded to my colleagues in my school, as well as my friends on Twitter.
Great.
I’ve never understood why it’s okay to have hundreds of politicians and lobbying groups supporting charters and vouchers but public school advocacy is forbidden.
Public schools need advocates too, and they don’t have any in government or in the ed reform orgs. We’re allowed to support and celebrate our schools and our students, just like ed reformers support and celebrate charters and vouchers.
They’ve set this up as a choice between charter and voucher lobbyists and “agnostics”. That leaves public school students without passionate, effective advocates and we have seen the results of that- our schools become the last priority, a disfavored “backup” or “default” to the privatized or private schools ed reformers prefer.
We deserve real advocates, not “agnostics”.
I wish the US Department of Education would stop portraying public schools so negatively. I get that they’re ideologically driven and prefer private schools, but it is really rotten that we are paying these people to characterize public school students as “less than”.
I’m sick of it. It’s not fair to public school students and families. They should either return some value to public schools or get off the public payroll. No one in the public is paying 10,000 public employees to denigrate and demean public school students. That isn’t their job. It’s also bad behavior and adults should refrain from it, no matter their level of ideological zeal.
This is all part of the brainwashing to shift the paradigm on the working class. They want to portray privatized schools as superior.
Let’s not talk about what Kamala Harris is proposing. It might offend some of the other candidates who have sense enough not to cause trouble by pretending it should be a major issue for 2020.