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Newsletter and Action of the Week for 8/31/17

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Julie Woestehoff Posted in LATEST newsletter and action of the week | Comments Off on Newsletter and Action of the Week for 8/31/17

Thumbnail of the 8/31/17 newsletter (full issue here) Action of the week: Help for Houston Tweet of the week: A terrible teachable moment on climate change https://tinyurl.com/ybo4wf2n #HelpforHouston PAA News: Don’t miss Public School Shakedown’s back-to-school special. PAA President Dora Taylor is a “Progressive Education Fellow” for The Progressive magazine which features her most recent article, “Voucher Vocabulary: A Guide to School Voucher Programs by Any Other Name.” PAA founding member Pamela Grundy has just published “Color and Character: West … →

Newsletter and Action of the Week for 8/24/17

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Thumbnail of the 8/24/17 newsletter (full issue here) Action of the week: Spread the word about PAA’s parent survey results. Tweets of the week: Listen to parents (add leg. twitter handle here)! PAA national survey is out today http://bit.ly/2vZfyw1  #ParentChoiceParentVoice (two more tweets in newsletter) PAA News: Summary of PAA Week activities

Newsletter and Action of the Week for 8/16/17

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Julie Woestehoff Posted in LATEST newsletter and action of the week | Comments Off on Newsletter and Action of the Week for 8/16/17

Thumbnail of the 8/16/17 newsletter (full issue here) Action of the week: Get inspired by Helen Gym: An audio recording of the full teleconference is here, and a blog summary of the discussion is here. Tweet of the week: Get inspired by Helen Gym! PAA Week Day 3 discussion of politics & schools will get you fired up for the work ahead! https://tinyurl.com/y75eza2n PAA News: Last day of PAA Week, internal strategy session. Also, reaching out to survey contest winners

Newsletter and Action of the Week for 8/9/17

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Julie Woestehoff Posted in LATEST newsletter and action of the week | Comments Off on Newsletter and Action of the Week for 8/9/17

Thumbnail of the 8/9/17 newsletter (full issue here) Action of the week: Get ready for PAA Week! Tweet of the week: Join Parents Across America for a week of action and discussion Aug. 14-17 #PAAWeek http://parentsacrossamerica.org/join-us-during-paa-week/ PAA News: We are very pleased to announce the unanimous election of Zerlina Smith from Chicago and Laura Bowman from Virginia and re-election of Khem Irby to the PAA Board of Directors. We look forward to a dynamic year under their leadership! Great thanks … →

Newsletter and Action of the Week for 7/31/17

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Julie Woestehoff Posted in LATEST newsletter and action of the week | Comments Off on Newsletter and Action of the Week for 7/31/17

Thumbnail of 7/31/17 issue (full newsletter here) Action of the week: Final day for PAA survey  PAA News: Laura Bowman, leader of PAA-Roanoke Valley, came across this good Slate article from January 2017, “Are Young Kids Doing Too Much Homework.” It quotes Laura at length and references PAA’s parent organizing toolkit.

Newsletter and action for 7/26/17

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Julie Woestehoff Posted in LATEST newsletter and action of the week | Comments Off on Newsletter and action for 7/26/17

Thumbnail of the 7/26/17 newsletter (full issue here) Action of the week: last chance to participate in PAA’s survey (now closed) PAA News: PAA-Roanoke Valley (VA) leader Laura Bowman speaks out on data privacy, SEL  

What are they rethinking?

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Julie Woestehoff Posted in Misc | Comments Off on What are they rethinking?

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made a short stealth tour of a handful of states this week with a demand that we all “rethink schools.” She gave Wyoming school officials less than a day to prepare for her visit, but 30 activists were motivated enough to turn out to protest her bad ideas. PAA’s interim executive director Julie Woestehoff, who lives in Wyoming (though on the other side of the state where DeVos visited), sent this letter to the main state-wide … →

DeVos charter school-gambled with Michigan children, and everyone lost

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Julie Woestehoff Posted in Misc | Comments Off on DeVos charter school-gambled with Michigan children, and everyone lost

Please read and share this message from PAA Board member Steven Norton, executive director of Michigan Parents for Schools, who wrote… t I wanted to make sure parent activists from all over saw this article: “Michigan Gambled on Charter Schools. Its Children Lost.” New York Times Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/magazine/michigan-gambled-on-charter-schools-its-children-lost.html To understand what Betsy DeVos brings with her to Washington, you need to understand the fight we’ve been having in Michigan over school “choice” developed explicitly to cause local public schools to … →

The negative effects of school closings

Posted on September 10, 2017 by Julie Woestehoff Posted in Misc | Comments Off on The negative effects of school closings

It’s been three or four years since a huge wave of mass school closings swept across the urban areas of the United States, and the results are pretty conclusive: the school closings did not improve academic outcomes for students, did not save significant amounts of money, probably caused mental and emotional harm to many children, disrupted neighborhoods, and may be a major factor in the rise in violence in Chicago and elsewhere. And yet school districts like Indianapolis are still … →

Welcoming Congress back

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Julie Woestehoff Posted in Misc | Comments Off on Welcoming Congress back

PAA sent the following fax to all US Senators and Representatives today:   Parent Voices Education Fax September 6, 2017 “Real Parent Voice – Real Parent Choice” Results of Parents Across America’s National Parent Survey 2017 Dear Senator/Representative, Welcome back! As your fall session begins and the new school year is underway across the U.S., Parents Across America wanted to share with you a summary of the results of our first national parent survey, “Real Parent Voice – Real Parent … →

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