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solidaridad: Social Justice Schools Conference by CEJ and PEAC February 2012

solidaridad: Social Justice Schools Conference by CEJ and PEAC February 2012:

Social Justice Schools Conference by CEJ and PEAC February 2012

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What does real school transformation look like? How will we win? Real transformation is rooted in the communities that schools serve, respect the rights of all school employees, and is fully funded.

February 10 & February 11, 2012
Fri: 4:30 to 7:00pm
Sat: 8:30 to 5:00
UCLA Community School
3201 W. 8th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90005


RSVP: Jimenez.rosa@gmail.com or (909) 753-9007 ASAP
Childcare, Food, and Translation Provided Both Days

Conference Presented Jointly by
Coalition for Educational Justice and Progressive Educators for Action

Keynote Speakers
Bill Fletcher
Labor/civil rights leader and author Bill Fletcher will speak to the attacks on the public sector, the need to project an alternative social vision, and the critical need for an organizing strategy (he is co-author, with Fernando Gapasin, of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and New Pathways Towards Social Justice).

John Rogers
John Rogers from UCLA IDEA (Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access), will speak on a panel with student, parent, and teacher leaders on real, community and labor led reform models in schools, including a community schools model, and the difficulty of implementing reform within a climate of unrelenting attacks against our communities.

Workshops
There will also be over ten workshops led by students, parents, and teachers that demonstrate the work currently being done in our schools that are signs of real community-driven, democratic, culturally relevant, and transformative practices. These include (along with others):

  • Balanced Literacy
  • Dual Language Programs
  • Alternative Teacher Evaluation System
  • Problem-Based, Community-Connected Instruction

20120210 CEJ PEAC Social Justice Schools Conference

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State community colleges set to ration classes

State community colleges set to ration classes:

State community colleges set to ration classes

Diana Wachner writes in a Life Review class. Community colleges plan to focus on essential classes only.

During World War II, there was food rationing. In 2012, California's community college leaders are poised to approve education rationing for thousands of students.

The proposal is controversial, with many students and educators critical of a shakeout that could end free courses offered for generations, including classes such as music appreciation and memoir writing. Also squeezed out would be students who linger at college for years, sampling one class after another.

The problem is as basic as a butter shortage. Essential



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