Tuesday, September 11, 2012

We Need Democrats To Act Like Democrats On Education | OurFuture.org

We Need Democrats To Act Like Democrats On Education | OurFuture.org:


We Need Democrats To Act Like Democrats On Education

[My guest writer today is Cynthia Liu, PhD. Cynthia launched member-supported K12NewsNetwork.com to amplify grassroots education news and provide a national platform for people to use sophisticated online organizing tools to better improve and strengthen public schools. It's "MoveOn" for school communities. K12NN's relaunch was funded by a Ford Foundation grant to re-envision journalism and civic engagement. Site tools are currently being used to organize supporters to fund California schools through key ballot initiatives and parcel taxes.]
While at the DNC, I was lucky enough to be invited to a small gathering of public education supporters with Governor Dean and Randi Weingarten, who heads the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). I'm a tremendous fan of Governor Dean -- in fact, I was a Deaniac before there was a netroots. I still think he's fantastic on so