Learn more about Grassroots Education Organizations in Georgia

Please help us make a ruckus on Twitter! Tell the @EdWorkforce Committee that you will not be silent while they rewrite legislation that impacts students and schools, and that you want to see real changes in their NCLB reauthorization bill! If there is anything we know, it is that public education allies dominate Twitter. Tonight and tomorrow we… View Article

2014 was a year filled with substantial stories, with more than a few seismic shifts in the public education landscape. At the 1st annual conference of the Network for Public Education in Austin, Texas in March, NPE President Diane Ravitch delivered a speech titled “Why We Will Win.” She told the crowd of over 400 public education activists… View Article

On Thursday, June 26, activists will converge at Westlake Park in Seattle for the Educating the Gates Foundation rally. The Washington BATS, a grassroots group of career educators, encourages the public to attend this event to learn about The Gates Foundation’s control of our nation’s public education system. A goal is to galvanize a coalition… View Article

Here is an article written by NPE Board Member, Larry Lee, that was posted in multiple publications in his home state of Alabama. By Larry Lee Don’t you believe them. Not for even one minute. You know, those folks on TV cable news sitting there in their makeup telling us how terrible the world is…. View Article

At the website Class Size Matters – the organization of NPE Board Member Leonie Haimson – you can find a variety of resources. Take a look at our most up to date one-page fact sheet about inBloom, inc. Here’s all the information you need to know and what you can do to take action. via… View Article

NPE Board member, Leonie Haimson, the Executive Director of Class Size Matters, testified recently at hearings related to student data privacy. Here is a post from Leonie’s website, NYC Public School Parents. Video  of Wednesday’s excellent NY Assembly hearings in Albany on inBloom and student privacy are online and below, including riveting critiques from many of the… View Article

Students’ protests go viral on Youtube while human rights advocates’ protests go international to the United Nations. There has been a lot of news this week concerning the hotly contested school closings in Chicago. The group Chicago Students Organizing to Save Our Schools (CSOSOS) made their grievances known at a BOE meeting held on July… View Article