'Save Our Schools' Grassroots Movement Hoping For Staying Power

Education Week:

Thousands of educators, parent activists, and others are expected to convene in the heat and humidity of Washington next month for a march protesting the current thrust of education policy in the United States, especially the strong emphasis on test-based accountability.

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[traceydouglas]

08:01 PM on 06/21/2011

Join Matt Damon and his mom with parents, students, teachers and concerned citizens from across the nation on July 30th in Washington, DC for the http://www.saveourschoolsmarch.org/
I'm coming all the way from California because I want to stand up for public education and fight against the privatization of our schools. Keep the 'public' in public education.

[changing]

01:58 PM on 06/19/2011

I'll be there. Happy to see a real movement that tells the real story of this education deform. It is about money, not education. Movements such as this can have great impact.

[Ariel Bonzai]

03:31 AM on 06/19/2011

Wow, no one cares if teachers are being cleansed, children are being exploited by greedy Philanthropist and criminally indifferent educRAT$. Nobody seems to care these parents found a way to articulate their concerns and confront this lunacy, but if Charlie Sheen farts he gets his own page. SICK SAD WORLD