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Read CPS Statement on Boston District-Charter Compact

CPS raises critical questions about the Gates Foundation-backed compact between Boston district and charter schools. Read it here.

SOS: Why Diane Ravitch is Marching on July 30

Diane offers more than enough great reasons to head to DC on July 30 and join her, Deborah Meier, Monty Neill, and many of your CPS friends. Here are just a few:

I am marching to protest the status quo of high-stakes testing, attacks on the education profession, and creeping privatization.

I want to protest

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Save Our Schools!

Join us in Washington, D.C., Saturday, July 30 for the SAVE OUR SCHOOLS MARCH AND NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION

After decades of “school reform” it is finally…

Our Day! Our March! Our Voice!

BE THERE!

It’s time to change the national dialogue on public education.

Save Our Schools!

Fulfill the Promise of Ed Reform with Adequate School Funding

Ann O’Halloran testified Tuesday, June 7, 2011, before the Joint Education Committee of the Massachusetts legislature in favor of House Bill 153. Among other things, she said this:

It is distressing that so many schools lack libraries and librarians, have relentless cutbacks in the arts, music, drama, after school programs, lack appropriate resources in books,

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We Spoke Out for Public Education!

Teacher Whitney Elliot spoke at the rally. Photo by Mark Thomson.

A Massachusetts public school activists coalition–including Citizens for Public Schools, Fairtest, Mass. SaveOurSchools, and Boston-area education faculty–rallied in Harvard Square Thursday, May 26, to tell Arne Duncan what we think about Race to the Top and his other education policies. (Arne Duncan was

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