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.”

Florida Education Forward! Summit – January 26, 2011 The challenges which Florida’s public education faces approach us with hurricane force this year.  After the recent election, those in the education profession might call it a Cat 5 storm, at that. January, I thought to myself,  is a time for new beginnings, new ideas, new cooperation.  Central in my mind was the thought that we simply cannot begin a new year re-hashing old reform ideas which sent us into a tailspin … →

By Julie Woestehoff of PURE and co-founder of Parents Across America Well, it’s not just to get to the other side. Since Monday, a handful of Advanced Placement students from Chicago’s South Shore Schools of the Arts and of Technology have been marching across the street for a mere 50 minutes of class in the brand-new, otherwise empty South Shore International College Prep High School building. Meanwhile, the rest of the students at these two small high schools are being … →