Pierce College student protest 10/26/11. #occupyedu: challenge schools to change. Relate & create A simple truth lurks behind our schools: we built them to keep our kids apart.
But we can do better. Join #occupyedu to share the countless, unique ways you challenge the status quo in public education. Education activists seek to collaborate with Occupy Wall Street - The Answer Sheet. A group of parents, educators, students and activists who have organized to work to eliminate high-stakes testing in public education is now seeking to collaborate with the Occupy Wall Street protest movement on specific demands regarding school reform.
The movement, called United Opt Out National, encourages parents to use “opt out” rules in their school districts that allow students to stay home when standardized tests are given. They say that the focus on high-stakes standardized testing in the No Child Left Behind era has failed to improve student achievement and instead has narrowed curricula, wasted public resources and caused anxiety and fear in children and teachers. The opt-out movement represents one of a number of recent protests against corporate-based school reform, which include a teachers’ march in Washington last summer and California Gov.
But unlike the Occupy Wall Street protesters, who don’t have a specific list of demands, Opt Out does. OCCUPY EDUCATION. 27th March 2014 Link with 1 note EmpowerED: Los Angeles Student Power 2014 → If you had the power to change your education, what would you do?
For the first time ever, leaders from K-12 student unions, like the Chicago Students Union, Newark Students Union, Portland Student Union, and Providence Student Union, will all be in the same room this Saturday at USC, sharing their stories of student organizing for educational justice with students in the LA community and working with them to build the student power movement. Over 175 students in LA have already registered for the event.