Friday, November 18, 2011

High School Students Are Occupying Public Education - Education - GOOD #ows

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High School Students Are Occupying Public Education

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As thousands of people of all ages marched around the country as part of the Occupy movement's "Day of Action" yesterday, teachers and students joined in to protest the devastating budget cuts wreaking havoc oncolleges and K-12 schools. A group of secondary students from the South Bronx who call themselves The Resistance has developed a 10-point list of demands they say would put the "public" back in public education and give the nation’s children a quality learning experience.

The students, who formed the group through the DreamYard A.C.T.I.O.N. Project—a four-year arts, activism, and