Save Our Schools Rally Kicks Off In D.C., Teachers Invited To Meet With Arne Duncan
The four-day long Save Our Schools rally begins in Washington, D.C. today.
The Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action, a joint effort of parents, teachers and community organizers, seeks to rally support for an end to controversial education reforms. The participants argue that the policies put in place under the Bush and Obama administrations leave too much control in the hands of government -- allowing those in Washington to decide what's best for those in the classroom.
The march's guiding principles and demands,according to the SOS March official website, include,
“equitable funding for all public school communities,” “an end to high stakes testing used for the purpse of student, teacher and school evaluation," "tacher, family and community leadership in forming public education policies,” and “curriculum developed for and by local school communities.”
According to the blog of one marcher, career teacher Mary Cathryn Riker of St. Paul, Minn.:
I will march for a statewide teacher support and evaluation framework that intentionally
First Posted: 7/28/11 12:26 PM ET Updated: 7/28/11 12:28 PM ET