New Jersey currently has  one of the best public school systems in the country. Check out the policy goals of one of our newest affiliates, Save Our Schools NJ, formed  to preserve the quality of New Jersey’s public school system from devastating budget cuts and privatization. Save Our Schools NJ (SOSnj) is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization of parents and other concerned residents who believe that all New Jersey children should have access to a high quality public education. Our group … →

Check out the work being done by one of our newest affiliates, the Community Education Task Force (CETF) in Rochester: The Community Education Task Force (CETF) is a coalition of Rochester City School District (RCSD) parents, grandparents, educators and community activists, which was formed in January 2010 for the purpose of defeating efforts to establish mayoral control of the RCSD. CETF worked collaboratively with the Rochester Teacher’s Association (RTA), Rochester Association of Paraprofessionals (RAP), Board of Education Non-Teaching Employees (BENTE), … →

Andrea Mérida of the Denver school board and founding member of PAA talks with Mario Solis-Marich of Colorado’s Progressive Talk radio (AM 760), about why parents need a national voice in educational policy.

This was written by Tamar Wyschogrod of Morris County, head of  NJ Parents Against Gov. Christie’s School Budget Cuts , a new affiliate of Parents Across America; join their Facebook page and/or contact her at tamarw@optonline.net The idea that education is a business just like any other, and that we can be “successful” by running it like a business, is just plain wrong. The current generation of reformers thinks that, if they stay focused and never take their eye off … →

See the report below from Kate  Lenox of the Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education, a new affiliate of Parents Across America. Sacramento parents and concerned citizens, please join their Facebook page,  or email Kate for more info at klenox@earthlink.net: The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education is a group of parents, teachers, and community members that has been fighting the privatization of public education here in Sacramento for eight years. We formed when the board of Sacramento City Unified … →

Sue Peters, founding member of Parents Across America and co-editor of the blog, Seattle Education 2010, speaks about the overwhelming influence of venture philanthropy on education policy, which is doing an “end run around democracy.” She points out how the strings attached to this funding “are binding our children and binding our teachers to policies that have failed and are damaging our schools.”