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The entire California Adult School System faces extinction: Mobilize to stop it the closures June 12th | Dailycensored.com

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The entire California Adult School System faces extinction: Mobilize to stop it the closures June 12th

by Danny Weil



The ugly face of privatization and financialization are not turned solely at our nation’s youth.  The loaded guns also have their sites set on doing away with adult public education.
Going back to school to sharpen your skills, take the class you always wanted, develop your potential, become a better citizen by sharpening your critical thinking skills, this is all on the chopping block which is also the ‘auction block’ in privatization circles.
You can help!  Get involved.  If you know an adult who is going back to school or thinking about it, tell him or her to attend the June 12th meeting to fight privatization and the decimation of education for adults.
W.E.B. Dubois said it best: “The role of education is not just make carpenters out of men, but to make men out of carpenters”.
I am sure now with women struggling for recognition and human rights, Dubois would have mentioned them in 

San Mateo Adult School San Mateo Union High School District
789 E. Poplar Avenue, San Mateo, CA  94401
    Office (650) 558-2101 ● Fax (650) 762-0232
Lawrence Teshara, Director
  Tim Doyle, Asst. Director/Admin. Services
  Fred Thompson, Asst. Director/Instr. Services

Adult Schools Face Extinction
Press Conference To Be Held
What: Press conference by      adult educators
When: Tuesday June 12, 10:30      AM
Where: San Mateo Adult School    
Why: Adult schools have received devastating cuts and face total elimination if Governor Brown’s Weighted Student Formula is adopted as is. Adult schools must be taken out  of this formula and given their own funding
Who: Adult educators and      students from Los Angeles, Oakland, Berkeley, Campbell, San Mateo, and      more

Contact Information
Informational questions:    Tim Doyle, assistant director 
 650-280-7924      tdoyle@smace.org
  Press conference organization:         Bruce Neuburger, press conference organizer, teacher
 415 -235-6918   
                                                                     
               
School website:                                        www.smace.org

Address:       789 E. Poplar Ave.  
San Mateo, CA 94401                              
                                                 
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