November Grassroots Education Network Reports
read this month’s reports from Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Ohio
The Day the SUPERs Came to the Ohio Statehouse
That beautiful November day is destined to be the turning point in returning public education policy-making to experienced education professionals.
That’s the day the SUPERs came to the Ohio Statehouse.
People Power Trounces Big, Dark Money, as Charter Expansion Suffers Decisive Defeat
A bright spot in an extremely dark election landscape came from Massachusetts voters, who soundly defeated a ballot question to lift restrictions on charter school expansion. The question’s defeat was a victory for public schools and for the power of educating the public about charter schools.
How One Town is Winning the Battle But Could Be Losing the War on Public Education
While Louisville’s recent school board selections mean we will finally have a fighting chance to stop the intentional harm that education reformers are doing at the local level, they can only do so much once the floodgates are opened at the state and national levels.
The results from Georgia— Victory in the Battle Against a State Takeover District
For those of us who support public education, a real bright spot in the November 2016 election was the defeat of Amendment 1 in Georgia. Amendment 1 proposed to allow the state to create a state-wide “Opportunity School District” that would take over and privatize so-called “failing schools,” patterned after similar districts in Louisiana, Tennessee and Michigan.
