Write to MA officials today and tell them to cancel this year’s 2020 MCAS tests! MA should join Washington, Texas and other states and do the right thing for our students. Click on our Action Network link to write your letter. → Read More
What a night with Diane Ravitch, Barbara Madeloni, Maurice Cunningham!
March 3, 2020 by
| Thanks to all who joined us February 26 to hear Diane Ravitch, Barbara Madeloni and Maurice Cunningham in Cambridge. It was such a special night. Your activism is why our resistance to corporate education reform is getting stronger and winning important battles. As Diane says, “resistance is not futile; resistance is powerful.” Thanks to the incredible and inspiring Diane, and to Barbara and Maurice for sharing their wisdom, wit and spirit with us. Here’s a huge shout out to the co-sponsors who are our partners in the coalition to defend public education: Boston Teachers Union, American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts, Massachusetts Teachers Association and the Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance. Here’s a video for those who wanted to but were unable to come! Thank you to board member, Carol Savage, for filming and editing. |
Attention School Funding Advocates! Your Voice is Needed
January 29, 2020 by
The New Student Opportunity Act (SOA) Means More Funding for Your Local Schools, But Your Voice is Needed Now on How It Should Be Spent.
The SOA is a major achievement, the result of years of advocacy to address vast inequities in state school funding. It will bring desperately needed funds to Massachusetts public schools, especially in districts serving students with the greatest needs. But it must be spent well by districts to achieve its goal: a quality education for every student.
All districts must develop a three-year spending plan by APRIL 1, 2020, for funding beginning July 1. Districts must solicit and consider local public input. THAT’S WHERE YOU COME IN!
Click here to read our new fact sheet and learn more about the SOA, what it means for your local schools and how you can make sure the resources go where they are most needed.
Join us Feb. 26 to hear Diane Ravitch talk about her new book, Slaying Goliath
January 13, 2020 by
Save the date and your seat for an evening with Diane Ravitch, Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 7pm at First Parish in Cambridge.
Diane’s new book, Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools, features the story of Massachusetts’ victorious 2016 No on 2 campaign to keep the cap on charter schools. She’ll be joined by two key players in that victory, Barbara Madeloni and Maurice Cunningham.
Reserve your ticket today by clicking here.
Diane Ravitch is a dynamic and powerful speaker, an inspiring leader in the national movement for educational justice, and against testing insanity and the privatization of public education.
She is a historian of education and Research Professor of Education at New York University. From 1991 to 1993, she was Assistant Secretary of Education and Counselor to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander in the administration of President George H.W. Bush. → Read More
Watch our video: A historic year in review
January 11, 2020 by
See the difference you made for Massachusetts students.
Click below to watch our video highlighting CPS’s 2019 activities in photos, starting with our Legislative breakfast and ending with the historic signing of the Student Opportunity Act! Photos also include rallies, testimony at the state house, and joining in local action with activists who successfully fought the transfer of a New Bedford public school to a charter school.
