Five New Years Resolutions for Public EducationSupporters | John Kuhn
The following post (originally published on the website Connected Superintendent) was written by John Kuhn, the Superintendent of the Perrin-Whitt Independent School District in Texas. He will be presenting a keynote address at the Network for Public Education 2014 National Conference on March 1& 2 at The University of Texas at Austin. 2013 was a pivotal year for parents, teachers and students who support a free public education for American children. In California, Governor Jerry Brown refused to over-test the state’s students to satisfy bureaucratic demands for data, even in the face of federal threats to withhold Title 1 education funding. In Seattle, Jesse Hagopian and fellow teachers at Garfield High refused to give the MAP standardized test; after facing down threats to their employment, the teachers saw the school district waive the MAP test as a graduation requirement. On the other side of the continent, students with the Providence Student Union in Rhode Island had adults take a NECAP test and released the results,zombie-protested, and generally gave the corporate reform movement fits. In Texas, an organization lovingly known as “Mothers Against Drunk Testing” formed and teamed up with a plethora of other public
