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Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education...A Journey For Justice We Are Reclaiming Our Public Schools: 60 Years After– Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education May 13, 2014 We are reclaiming our public schools. We demanding that the promise of [...]

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Post by IDEA. The J4J Children Are Not Collateral Damage Webinar – May 9th 2014 – 8:30PM ET Jitu Brown, National Director of J4J Alliance, Deborah Meier, Educator for near fifty years, Activist, and President of Save Our Schools Board, Chicago's Dyett High School Students, [...]

Originally Published at Opportunity to Learn. Tuesday April 23rd, 2013 Mass school closings have become a hallmark of today's dominant education policy agenda. But rather than helping students, these closures disrupt whole communities. And as U.S. Department of Education data suggests, the most recent rounds of mass [...]

Partnerships, NOT Pushouts - New "Whole-Child" Policy Guide for School Board Members Tuesday April 22nd, 2014 In today’s global economy, a high quality, comprehensive education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it's a prerequisite to success. Students must now possess not only academic knowledge [...]

Fulfilling the Promise of Brown v. Board: Organizing for Educational Justice for All 
 We Demand... (For More Details Click on the Plus Signs to the Left of Each Demand) Schools can play an instrumental [...]

Because a Good Education Can't Be Measured By a Test Score Number of NYC Parents Refusing State Tests Expected to Triple in 2014 What began two years ago as a small pocket of resistance has burgeoned into a full-blown protest movement: public school parents are [...]

Private vouchers purposely divert funding away from our already underfunded public schools, creating a parallel education system without uniform academic standards, accountability or teaching qualifications. Public tax dollars should stay with public schools. Gov. Rick Scott’s allies in the Florida Legislature are [...]

#VisitFL, The Prison State. #GoodKidsMadCities pic.twitter.com/SeP5lY5HZN— The Dream Defenders (@Dreamdefenders) March 4, 2014 Tampa Tribune: Dream Defenders shake Capitol on opening day AP (FL): Amid protests, Florida legislators start session The Root: Dream Defenders Confront Florida Legislators Miami Herald: Gov. rick Scott gets personal and political [...]