Sign the NPE Action Proposal to the Democratic Party Platform Committee
The Network for Public Education Action Fund has drafted a proposal for consideration by the Democratic Party’s Platform Committee.
We call for the elimination of federal mandates for annual testing; for a declaration of support for public schools; for a ban on for-profit charters; for regulation of charters that receive federal funds to assure that they serve the same children as the public schools; for revision and strengthening of the FERPA privacy laws to protect our children’s data from commercial data mining; for full funding of special education; for support of early childhood education; and for other means of improving the federal role in education.
The proposal is in draft form. We will be making revisions. If you see something you think needs fixing, let us know.
Please read our draft proposal. And if you agree, add your name of our petition to the Democratic party. We plan to make the same appeal to the Republican party.
Both parties, we hope, will support the public schools, which educate nearly 90% of the nation’s children. Public schools are a bedrock of our society, in the past, now, and in the future.
Big Education Ape: Please Support NPE’s Political Action Fund! | Diane Ravitch's blog - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2016/05/please-support-npes-political-action.html