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The #PublicEdRevolution will not be on FB: Standing Up For Action – Join us in Florida this January
REGISTER FOR CONFERENCE HERE. Read below for more details. We, at UOO, have been saying for over a year now that the 2014-2015 school year is the tipping point. With PARCC, SBAC and other...
An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution: United Opt Out’s Test of Courage
In the summer of 2013, United Opt Out spent all of June writing 50 state opt out/refusal guides to arm everyone with an essential tool, specific to their state, in order to halt corporate...
Colorado UPDATE: Sign petition to repeal SB191: Linking Standardized Test Scores to Teacher Pay and Performance
The petition states: In an effort to promote collaborative partnerships among schools, teachers, parents and students, and given the lack of evidence to support high-stakes standardized tests as valid and reliable measures of educator effectiveness, we...
Standing up for human right in Florida
By UOO Admin Denisha Jones Education is a Human Right Education around the world is viewed as a human right. Human rights are bestowed upon all humans by virtue of their existence. Human...
Time to Disrupt the “Disrupters”!!!
Post by Ceresta Smith Disruption! Teachers and support staffs are not typically characterized as people that engage in disruption. By nature we strive to keep our classrooms and our academic intuitions running smoothly, as...
How Standardized Testing Harms Urban Communities
To transgress I must move past boundaries, I must push against to go forward. Nothing changes in the world if no one is willing to make this movement” – – bell hooks, Art on My...
Stand Up for Action with Barbara Madeloni
Barbara Madeloni says : “The accountability regime has done too much damage for too long. Under the pretense of reform and civil rights, corporatists have exploited our children, undermined public schools as sites...
United Opt Out: Stand Up for Action Florida Schedule
Purchase ticket for our Florida Stand Up for Action event here at eventbrite. Donations to support travel for our speakers, conference space, and supplies are appreciated here at gofundme. January 16th -