Marla Kilfoyle, former National Executive Director of the BATS, is now in charge of the Network for Public Education’s Grassroots Education Network. She is an awesome organizer and has signed up more than 125 organizations from across the nation to work together on behalf of our public schools. This is her second newsletter.
Read it and see what your friends are doing. Then join us!
We are many, they are few.
Together, we are making a difference!
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Thank you Marla Kilfoyle.
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As Diane Ravitch often points out, the Deformers are all paid hirelings. Stop paying them, and poof, Ed Deform disappears. As Renaissance princes used to say,
pas d’argent, pas de Suisse (no money, no mercenaries)
We are many. They are few (though well remunerated).
Diane, Anthony, Leonie, James, Denisha, Lavelle, Roxana, Susan, Julian, Yohuru, Carol, Darcie, and now, Marla, and to all who give their hearts and souls to the Resistance, not for money but for teachers and parents and, most of all, kids.
Did I leave anyone out?
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Thank you
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Posted at Oped. https://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Over-125-Groups-Join-NPE-s-in-General_News-Diane-Ravitch_Education_Privatization-190503-939.html “The NPE Grassroots Education Network is a network of over 125 grassroots organizations nationwide who have joined together to preserve, promote, improve, and strengthen our public schools. If you know of a group that would like to join this powerful network, please go here to sign up. Please encourage people to join them and support their work! Call on family, friends, and colleagues to join the fight to save public education!The NPE released our Asleep at the Wheel report which describes the U.S. Department of Education Charter Schools Program’s waste and fraud. In the Public Interest offers their weekly privatization report. This is a must follow and share. Please use this clearinghouse of information to inform people in the various states about the NPE Grassroots Education Network organizations. “
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NPE could pursue getting funding through the donation plan set up by CREDO cell phone service. Each month CREDO selects 3 organizations to benefit from their profits.
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Thanks for the tip. We are listed on amazon prime as a charity. The benefit is tiny. On about $10,000 of purchases, we receive—a guess—$25.
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CREDO’s donation is tens of thousands of dollars, one time (with the opportunity to resubmit), not linked to sales of service.
To me, it looks like the Ann Casey Foundation no longer promotes school privatization. If I’m correct and it means they recognize the scam, they owe it to the public to make amends. Donations from them to NPE would be one way.
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Maybe the Annie Casey Foundation changed direction after its education advisor departed to work for the Walton Foundation.
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Linda,
What is CREDO? The one I know is at Stanford and is funded by the Waltons to evaluate charter schools.
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CREDO has been in the marketplace gaining share for several years. It’s a national company that competes against AT&T. The firm operates like other cell phone service providers with one huge difference, its profits fund groups working for the common good.
CREDO is ideal for citizens who oppose corporate and executive dollars spent to advance the right wing. For example, AT&T gave Michael Cohen, $600,000 shortly after Trump was elected. (AT&T’s CEO, Randall Stephenson, was also in the news when, during his tenure as Boy Scouts President, the annual BSA jamboree hosted one of Trump’s politicized, sexist and offensive speeches.)
Each month, CREDO identifies three worthy groups on a ballot. It’s easy to register to vote (no need to buy CREDO’s service to vote). This month, two of the three groups in contention are Center for Media and Democracy and Doctors without Borders.
Even when an organization doesn’t get the most votes, it gets visibility by being on the list.
CREDO also posts news items of interest and has petitions to sign (hundreds of thousands sign.)
Hope this helps.
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64,000 people voted at CREDO in April. $150,000 was distributed among the 3 contenders.
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Fabulous! Shared.
Thank you!
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