Thursday, November 1, 2012

Save Our Schools; Rebuild the American Dream Through EducationSave Our Schools

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Save Our Schools; Rebuild the American Dream Through Education



Save Our Schools; Rebuilds the American Dream Through Education

By Betsy L. Angert
Save Our Schools [SOS] is an organization devoted to fair and equitable education for all. We work to preserve and transform public education. We are a venue for active, people-powered, grassroots education innovation. In cyberspace and in communities throughout this country we advance solutions that bring learning back to our children, education back to public school classrooms, and policy decisions back to the students, teachers, and parents.
SOS is dedicated to finding a better, more balanced, path for education reform in this country. In that spirit, we propose The Equitable Education Policy Path. We establish that public education must be an American priority. Education is a basic civil and human right. Every child has the right to attend a high quality public school.
“America’s future will be determined by the home and the school.
The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.”

–Jane Addams [Public Philosopher, Sociologist, Author]

Our initiative was born out of an overwhelming awareness that today, and for the last several decades, students