'Save Our Schools' Leaders Craft Next Steps
By guest blogger Nirvi Shah:
Now that the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action events in Washington, D.C. are over, organizers of this movement against high-stakes testing and test-based accountability are already plotting their next move.
During a four-hour meeting of about 200 people today, the group decided that the passion they witnessed during a two-day conference last week and a rally and march Saturday provided enough fuel to keep their passion burning.
"There are tremendously high spirits," Bob Schaeffer, one of the spokesmen for the movement, told me after the Sunday meeting, which was not open to the press. "Everybody thought the march and conference that preceded