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Occupy the Department Of Education Returns to DC | Mother Jones

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Occupy the Department Of Education Returns to DC

| Thu Apr. 4, 2013 3:20 AM PDT
Protesters from Occupy DOE 
Occupy DOE
Most of the Occupy movement has petered out a year and a half after it exploded in New York’s Zuccotti Park. But one small segment of that movement is rallying in DC this week to focus attention on the evils of “corporate education reform.”
Liberal education luminaries including DianeRavitch, a former assistant education secretary, and Central Park East schools guruDeborah Meier, will be in Washington as part of a four-day “Occupy the Department of Education” event organized by United Optout, a group that came together last year in the flurry of other Occupy Wall Street events. They’ll be part of non-stop speechmaking from teachers, educators, students, and parents, decrying such things as high-stakes testing and the move towards privatizing public education.
The focus on the Department of Education is intentional. Liberal school advocates are deeply