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Save Our Schools Education convention August 3-5 in DC | Save Our Schools: March and National Call to Action | causes.com

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Save Our Schools Education convention August 3-5 in DC

Save Our Schools Education Convention 
A People’s Policy & Activism Summit 
http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1104247304263-54/Convention+Planks.pdf 
August 3-5, 2012 Washington, DC Marriott Wardman Park 
If you are interested in participating as a delegate for one of the following education issues, please contact us at: info@saveourschools.com 
Platforms 
1. Poverty (including anti-poverty program) 
2. Civil Rights (including ELL, immigration) 
3. Standards (including Common Core, impact of standards on practice) 
4. Equitable Funding 
5. Student Assessments 
6. Teacher Evaluations and Teacher Professionalism 
7. School Accountability 
8. Parent and Community Involvement 
9.Curriculum Development (including the arts, special education, & physical education) 
10. Charter Schools (including vouchers & privatization) 
11. Reconstituting NCLB/ESEA 12. Early Childhood 13. Students 14. Collective Bargaining/Unionism