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Diane Ravitch's blog 
So happy to learn about plans for Philadelphia. The sooner you know a date, the better!
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March 27-29, 2020
We decided to switch back to spring to avoid a conference right before presidential elections. That required skipping 2019 to get back to a spring conference.
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Joining and/or donating to NPE is like watching “the feel good movie of the summer.” You just walk away, well, feeling good. Speaking of which, I think I will write another check to NPE soon. I could use a pick-me-up.
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As we from New Orleans say, “Yeah, you right!”
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Hi Diane What’s the best way to send you something by email that’s not a response to anything specific. There is nothing apparent on your web site. The article in today’s NY Times about 50 years of discrimination in NYC public schools was pretty powerful. Joel
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 6:02 PM Diane Ravitch’s blog wrote:
> dianeravitch posted: ” If you liked the NPE report ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, > released today by the Network for Public Education, please consider > joining. It is free. We rely on donations. We believe in the power of > numbers, combined with a small but amazing staff. If you s” >
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Write my NYU address
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NPE’s importance can not be understated. The Providence Journal’s coverage of the story about a master degree program created by Learning Communities and United Way shows us how critical NPE is in informing the public.
Gatehouse Media owns the greatest number of daily newspapers in the U.S. Politico wrote on 2/4/2016, “Several mysteries tumbled out of Sheldon Adelson’s secret $140 mil. purchase of the Las Vegas Review Journal…One big one: seller Gatehouse Media’s own journalistic ethics.” Politico reported some of Gatehouse papers’ “top editors are complaining about diminished perception of Gatehouse newspapers’ credibility”.
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I agree. Information and organization are our best allies in opposing privatization. Thanks to NPE and other social justice groups that will stand up for the rights of regular people in this country. NPE provides a great deal of useful information and access to other like minded public school supporters.
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In 2017, a Japanese firm bought the investment company that owns Gatehouse Media. (WB Journal 2-16-2017)
The schools our kids go to and we pay for could be owned by a foreign nation if billionaires win the battle they’ve waged against the common good.
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and as US debt reaches unimaginable heights, it is interesting that we seldom hear anyone discussing the “who” part of the “who it is now HOLDING that debt….”
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Remember when the GOP was party of fiscal responsibility? Deficit hawks?
No more. Now they are led by the King of Debt.
National deficit highest in history
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What Ciedie suggests doesn’t fit the narrative that appeals to Republicans. If the globalist oligarchs identified foreign ownership of debt like say the Trump organization’s, it would confuse. Donald’s message is wrapping himself in a flag and the McConnell message is flag pins.
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AFT or NEA members should replace their top management with Jeff Bryant.
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I have been puzzled by lack of media coverage of the POTUS candidacy of Kamala Harris. I made a simple search: “Network for Public Education Kamala Harris” and the first thing listed was this: “We are concerned to see billionaires at the forefront of the privatization movement on her contributor list.” Eli Broad, Reed Hastings and Laurene Powell Jobs. Harris also received a contribution from New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg.(That was 2016, and she was graded D- for it)
2016
As California Attorney General, Harris prosecuted online for-profit charter school , K-12.
2017
Senator Harris referenced Betsy DeVos’s opposition to oversight of Michigan’s charter school sector as one of her reasons for voting against her nomination.
2019
Senator Harris supported the Los Angeles teachers strike and stated that she is “particularly concerned with expansions of for-profit charter schools and believes all charter schools need transparency and accountability.”
That earned her a B
No known position on high stakes testing.
Ok. I am not ruling out the possibility that she would be a lousy candidate for public education. I am also not ruling out the possibility that she would be one of the best we have heard from for a very long time.
I get e-mails from the network for public education….maybe I am already a member.
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Bernie Sanders, and to a lesser extent Klobuchar seem to be considered acceptable. https://npeaction.org/npe-action-2020-presidential-candidates-project/
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While I was typing, Randi Weingarten appeared on msnbc. Consider what she has to say.
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