It's National Teacher Appreciation Week, and Parents Across America wants to make it very
clear that we love our children's teachers!

 How does going screen-free support teachers? Because in going screen-free, we are standing up for real personalized learning - the learning that is done when adult persons interact with student persons. Besides the obvious profit motive, we know that corporate reform is pushing hard for more and more online and digital learning simply to get rid of teachers.

CCFC has some great ideas for ways to enjoy your screen free time. Check them out here.

The charter school angle

Yes, the same president who proclaimed this Teacher Appreciation Week also proclaimed this Charter School Week. And, as we know, one of corporate reform's motives for creating and expanding charter schools is to undermine the teaching profession.

So, we'd like to help shine a spotlight on charter schools by repeating a recent charter school scandal uncovered in March by the Chicago Sun-Times, which simply confirms what most of us knew all along: that many of the rallies and other demonstrations of parental "support" for charter schools are bought and paid for by charter school agencies.

NPE conference report

You can watch many of the speeches and panels at http://www.schoolhouselive.org/2016-npe-videos.php

Parent Voices on the Impact of Race, Poverty and Cultural Bias on Educational Opportunity: a Call to Action

You can read more about our workshop here.