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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Parents in Chicago Occupy their School and win a Stakeholder Meeting | The Classroom Sooth #ows #soschat

Parents in Chicago Occupy their School and win a Stakeholder Meeting | The Classroom Sooth:

Parents in Chicago Occupy their School and win a Stakeholder Meeting

Congratulations to the parents of students at Brian Piccolo Elementary School in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago.

I have a feeling we will see more #OccupyOurSchools in our city and across the nation as the fight to reclaim our public schools grows.

While you plan your occupation, please join Parents Across America in national conference call on education reform on Monday Feb 20th. Call in is at 8pm Eastern.

Conference Dial-in Number: (424) 203-8075

Participant Access Code: 1037540#

Adam

Declaration #1 from Piccolo occupation

11:49pm – February 17th, 2012

We, the Piccolo Occupation, are putting our childrens’ education

first. Piccolo has failed because CPS has refused to invest in public

education. The school has struggled for years but you have taken out

all the programs, classes and opportunities to learn. We have had 3