A great day for public education
by pureparents
Report from the 4-state regional Parents Across America/Public Schools Across America action planning meeting on February 25, 2013
Seventy-five public school activists from Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois braved ice and cold to come together for a half-day regional action planning meeting in Fort Wayne, Indiana, this past Saturday, Feb 23.
This energetic and positive meeting was a great start to what we hope will be coordinated action across our four states and beyond to support and strengthen public schools against the current onslaught of corporate reform.
A state super with 1.6 million more votes than the governor!
Starting the afternoon out with the upbeat story of her election as Indiana’s top educator was our keynote speaker, Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz. Superintendent Ritz shared t