Public Education

The Long Game: Where Art Thou Public Education?

February 19, 2017 Morna McDermott, www.educationalchemy.com Create! Education, Education reform, Public Education

By Morna McDermott for Education Alchemy. The privatizers are busy at work. Unless you live under a rock (a tempting thought lately…) you probably feel like I do every time you turn on the news; the sensation of riding the Tilt a Whirl while taking ‘shrooms. It’s exhausting at best, and terrifying at worst; trying to untangle what is happening around us. Take Devos and her anti-Grizzly platform as the prime example of current insanity.We're all made here The most recent effort toward destroying public ed comes in the form of the Choices in Education Act of 2017. I live in Maryland along with Andy Harris (R) who is co-sponsor of this bill. (lucky me). Many activists fighting against education reform are already on top of pushing back and calling for action against this bill, as well they (and we) should be. Like many of my friends and colleagues I am also strongly opposed to a voucher system for school funding and this bill.

DeVos, Obama, Booker, Trump – All Enemies Of Public Education

February 9, 2017 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Education, Public Education

By Glen Ford for Black Agenda Report - Sometimes, when ruling class competitors collide, the villainy of both factions is made manifest. Donald Trump did the nation’s public schools a great service by nominating Betsy DeVos, the awesomely loathsome billionaire Amway heiress, for secretary of Education. In turning over that rock, Trump exposed the raw corruption and venality at the core of the charter school privatization juggernaut. Only an historic tie-breaking vote by Vice President Mike Pence saved DeVos from rejection by the U.S. Senate. Two Republicans abandoned their party’s nominee, joining a solid bloc of Democrats, including New Jersey’s Cory Booker, a school privatizer that crawled out of the same ideological sewer as DeVos and has long been her comrade and ally.

‘Common’ Goal: Corporate Ownership Of Education

August 21, 2016 Morna McDermott, educationalalchemy.com Educate! Corporatism, Education, Privatization, Public Education

By Morna McDermott for Educational Alchemy. Lamar Alexander and Patti Murray didn’t (really) write the new Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA). The Business Roundtable (BRT) did. See the BRT resounding endorsement for ESSA here. Ok, they didn’t write it in the literal sense. Kind of like ALEC only writes “model”legislation. or maybe as they say it in their own words: “Thanks to the efforts of our CEO members and partners in the civil rights community who worked with leaders in Congress, the new law is consistent with the principles Business Roundtable released and promoted while the legislation was being developed.” Or let me share the Business Roundtable “Principles for Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act” guiding principles. Pretty much ESSA in a nut shell.

Common Core And Corporate Colonization: The Big Picture

August 11, 2016 Staff, www.educationalchemy.com Educate! Charter Schools, Common Core, Corporatization, Education, Public Education, Youth

By Staff of Educational Alchemy - I said it over three years ago and I’ll say it again. Common Core was, and is, an agenda crafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). It was never about “communism,” or “socialism.” It was the state and federal governments serving as the delivery boys for the privatization of public education at the hands of global corporate interests (think: Trans Pacific Partnership and UNESCO).

Black Organizers In Chicago Get In “Formation”

May 12, 2016 Kelly Hayes, www.truth-out.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Chicago, Education, Protests, Public Education

By Kelly Hayes for Truthout - While Beyoncé fans around the country were downloading and streaming her much-discussed new album Lemonade, the music and imagery of songs like "Freedom" and "Formation" found a new expression on the streets of Chicago on April 30 when young Black organizers disrupted the NFL draft to demand justice for their communities. Borrowing and reinterpreting the singer's lyrics and the Black power aesthetics of her February Super Bowl halftime show, organizers shut down one of Chicago's main traffic arteries with a collision of pop culture and grassroots resistance.

Students Take Lead Reclaiming US Public Education From Corporate Assault

May 5, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Resist! Corporations, Public Education, Student Activism

By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - Parents, teachers, and students took part in rallies and "walk-ins" across the country on Wednesday, seeking to "reclaim" U.S. public schools from the grips of corporate reformers and privatization schemes. The coordinated actions are the second national event organized by the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS), a coalition that includes the American Federation of Teachers, the Journey for Justice Alliance, and the Center for Popular Democracy, among other organizations and unions.

Thousands Of Protesters Defy Protest Ban In Morocco

January 27, 2016 Staff, www.alaraby.co.uk Resist! Education, Morocco, Protests, Public Education

By Staff of The New Arab - Thousands of demonstrators in Morocco have defied a government ban to march in a tense protest over planned cuts to Morocco's education system. Marchers on Sunday chanted "We're prepared to go to prison" as they neared the parliament building in Rabat, Morocco's capital. Teacher trainees have been protesting against the cuts around the country for the past few months, and the response from security forces during demonstrations has frequently been violent.

From Compassionate Schools To A Compassionate Society

January 10, 2016 Susan DuFresne, www.livingindialogue.com Create! Education, Public Education, Testing

By Susan DuFresne, for Living in Dialogue. I connect the dots of EduActivists’ work to other movements through Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and collaborative activist work I engaged in this summer. Here I make the point that in order to have Compassionate Schools, we also need a compassionate society. In this post I will discuss the liberation involved in developing compassionate schools and how that liberation is connected to the development of a compassionate society. Who are the leaders and who must be involved in the struggle as examples? How are the genres of activist movements connected to the struggle for a compassionate society? Our public schools are becoming schools of trauma. The reformers’ policies have dehumanized schooling, the children, and teachers to the point where schooling itself is traumatic. Children who cry and vomit over high stakes tests. Children and teachers who are punished over test scores. Schools closed causing actual deaths in Chicago for children who must cross gang lines to attend their new schools. Zero Tolerance policies that imprison children for minor infractions.

People’s ‘Walk-In’ Defends Public Education In Milwaukee

September 28, 2015 Workers World, www.workers.org Resist! Education, Human Rights, Milwaukee, Public Education

Educators, staff members, students and community members “walked-in” at 105 Milwaukee Public Schools on Sept. 18. This action was organized by the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association and Schools and Communities United, with support from dozens of labor-community organizations. Participants held rallies, informational picket lines and other events before the start of the school day and before they “walked-in” to their respective schools. Thousands across the city demanded an end to Wall Street attacks on public education. In a powerful solidarity action, similar groups organized simultaneous walk-ins at 14 public schools in LaCrosse, Wis., near the Minnesota state line. Over the past few years the right-wing-controlled Wisconsin Legislature has rammed through the greatest austerity cutbacks in the history of the state in public education — both K-12 and higher education.

Hunger Strike For Dyett Passes 22 Days

September 9, 2015 Michelle Gunderson, www.livingindialogue.com Resist! #FightForDyett, Chicago, Public Education

By Michelle Gunderson in Living In Dialogue - We sit under the trees at Dyett High School yet again on Sunday night. The Dyett 12 hunger strikers sit in a tight circle while a crowd of over a hundred of Chicago’s activists listen in. I know almost every face in this crowd. They are people who understand struggle and know what the word solidarity truly means. It is day 22 of a hunger strike to re-open Dyett High School as an open enrollment school that is community supported and community sustained. The activists are here to see what the hunger strikers are asking and to have their guidance in how to support them. Last Thursday Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, held a press conference to announce that a compromise had been made. Dyett High School would open as an open enrollment high school with an arts focus and a technology component.

How The Billionaire Kingpins Of School Privatization Got Stopped

September 9, 2015 Kali Holloway, www.truth-out.org Resist! Charter Schools, Privatization, Public Education

By Kali Holloway in Truthout - The debate over public schools in Arkansas has been, for decades, ongoing and often fraught. In 1957, the Arkansas school year began with white mobs viciously attacking nine black teenagers as they attempted to desegregate Little Rock's Central High following Brown vs. Board of Education, shining a national spotlight on the state and forcing President Eisenhower to send in the 101st Airborne Division. This past January, nearly 60 years after Arkansas' first desegregation efforts, the state board of education dissolved Little Rock's democratically elected local school board, the most racially inclusive and representative of its majority-black constituency in nearly a decade. In making the decision, the state overruled widespread public outcry to take control of the largest school district in the state. Two months later, Walton Family Foundation-backed lobbyists launched a brazen legislative push to allow for broader privatization - or put bluntly, "charterization" - of schools across Arkansas. It was a move many believed revealed a carefully orchestrated effort, begun months prior, to undermine the state's public school system, destroy its teachers unions and turn public funds into private profits.

Dyett High School Strike Continues After Major Concessions

September 4, 2015 Ted Cox, www.dnainfo.com Resist! #FightForDyett, Chicago, Community, Public Education

By Ted Cox in DNAInfo - Chicago Public Schools will launch an open-enrollment, neighborhood arts school at Dyett High School, district officials announced Thursday. In doing so, they circumvented a formal request for proposals on the school by coming up with a concept of their own, not submitted in the conventional process. "Ultimately, the goal was to do what was right for the children," said Chief Executive Officer Forrest Claypool in making the announcement at CPS headquarters. Yet the dozen Dyett hunger strikers urging acceptance of their proposal for a Dyett Global Leadership and Green Technology High School were quick to signal their disappointment outside after the announcement was made. "The hunger strike is not over," said Jeanette Ramann. "CPS did not follow its own process."

Bring Back Free College – & Cancel Debt For The “In-Betweeners”

May 9, 2015 Mary Green Swig, Steven L. Swig, and Richard Eskow, www.ourfuture.org Organize! Academic Freedom, Public Education

Momentum is building for an exciting “new” idea, one which is in fact far older than many people realize: free higher education in the United States. The cost of educating oneself to participate fully in society is one which our revolutionary forebears understood should be borne by everyone. In John Adams’ day, that meant an elementary and high school education. Today, for many people, higher education is equally essential. The cost of that education is not an individual or charitable obligation. It is a social one. Since we first wrote about free higher education as a human right back more than a year ago, the idea has gained considerable momentum. President Obama has proposed a program of tuition-free junior college education. Other groups have begun advocating for free four-year public education.

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