Parents Across America Update
Parents Across America Action News May 2, 2013
Welcome to PAA Action News, the information and action newsletter of Parents Across America.
PAA Action Alert
Help a student speak out against using tests to evaluate teachersHere’s a quick action for the week:
Please sign this petition posted by Miami University of Ohio student Aaron Shafer. Aaron explains: “Standardized tests are not a sound or fair way to evaluate teachers. The higher the stakes we give these tests, the more we will see test prep and test cheating, which goes against the positive, democratic nature of public education.”
We agree! Take a look at PAA’s fact sheet, “Tying Teachers’ Salaries to Test Scores Doesn’t Work.”
PAA and PAAers in the News
Great news for PAA!
After several months of arduous work, the PAA Board of Directors has finalized our by-laws and application for our IRS 501c3 status.
We also elected officers:
Dora Taylor, President
Natalie Beyer, Vice-President
Julie Woestehoff, Secretary
The by-laws have been sent to the PAA leadership group for feedback, then we hope to have our application in the mail.
Many thanks to our current Board for all of their hard work – to Karen Miller and Officers Dora, Natalie and Julie, and to former Board members Pamela Grundy and Karran Harper-Royal. We have had excellent advice and support from Dusty Federko, a volunteer attorney from Chicago’s Katten Muchin law firm via The Law Project, a Chicago-based group that provides pro bono legal assistance to non-profit organizations.
Congratulations to Rita Solnet on Florida parent trigger win!
The indomitable Rita Solnet, who helped beat back the parent trigger bill last year in Florida, has done it again, with the help of other parent groups and some major goofs by Parent Revolution.The astroturfers got caught setting up front groups, forging signatures on pro-trigger petitions, and lying about a video used to show Florida legislators that there were, yes, there were some
