Former Oakland teacher a lead organizer for Save Our Schools #SOSMarch | The Education Report

Former Oakland teacher a lead organizer for Save Our Schools March | The Education Report

Former Oakland teacher a lead organizer for Save Our Schools March

By Katy Murphy
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 at 10:55 pm in NCLB, Obama, achievement gap,initiatives, school reform, students.

Anthony Cody, an Education Week blogger and former math and science teacher and coach in OUSD, is one of the organizers of Saturday’s Save Our Schools March in Washington, D.C. March participants don’t like the direction in which education reform is headed; among other demands, they are calling for an end to the practice of using student test scores as the basis for decisions about school closures, layoffs and pay.

I reached Cody on Tuesday for this story about the movement. I also talked to Molly Servatius, from San Francisco’s Paul Revere Elementary, who is about to