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Ravitch rallies hundreds to defend public education

October 25, 2013 by

With a rousing defense of public education and a scathing critique of those who seek to privatize it, Diane Ravitch drew a diverse audience of 800 to Harvard’s Memorial Church on October 24th. Citizens for Public Schools sponsored the event as part of its Mary Ann Hardenbergh annual lecture series.

Ravitch, a historian and former U.S. assistant secretary of education, pulled no punches when explaining what corporate-driven “reform” means for public education: budget cuts, elimination of jobs, harming of children, and turning over schools to hedge fund managers.    → Read More

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Hear Diane Ravitch, TONIGHT, Oct. 24 in Cambridge

September 30, 2013 by

Citizens for Public Schools is proud to present Diane Ravitch, speaking on her new book, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools. Reign of Error picks up where Diane left off with her ground-breaking book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System.

When: Thursday, October 24, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Memorial Church,
Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Tickets: $12

NOTE: ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED, BUT YOU CAN GET TICKETS AT THE DOOR BEGINNING AT 7 P.M.   → Read More

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Education, Education-Other

20 Years After Education Reform, CPS Calls for New Direction

June 10, 2013 by

Citizens for Public Schools (CPS), a 31-year-old organization dedicated to improving education for Massachusetts children, has released a new report on how those children have fared in the 20 years since the Education Reform Act was signed, June 18, 1993. The report is titled, Twenty Years After Education Reform: Choosing a Path Forward To Equity and Excellence For All.   → Read More

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CPS Joins Mass Budget’s Kids Count Blog

May 22, 2013 by

Citizens for Public Schools is proud and excited to be one of the organizations participating in Mass Budget’s new Kids Count blog. Here’s our first, introductory blog post, “Public Schools, A Resource Worth Funding and Defending.”    → Read More

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Protect Massachusetts Students’ Privacy

May 13, 2013 by

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education plans to help corporations profit from schoolchildren’s most sensitive and confidential information. Massachusetts is one of seven states committed to participate in the development and pilot testing of inBloom, a Gates Foundation initiative. Student information—including your child’s name, home address, email address, test scores, racial identity, economic and special education status, and possibly even detailed disciplinary and health records—will be stored on a data “cloud” and shared with for-profit corporations, without any guarantee that the information will be safeguarded.

For more on this and what you can do to protect sensitive student data from being shared with corporations, click here to visit the action page at the web site of our partner the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood.   → Read More

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