"March For Our Lives" Rally
Parkland Students to Tour the Country to Encourage Young People to Vote. . .
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March For Our lIves Rally & Holding Politicians Accountable
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"Parkland students propose changes to gun policies. They believe federal and state governments must put these changes in place to ensure that mass shootings and gun violence cease to be a staple of American culture. . .
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The Town Hall Project
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to learn more.
Students plan to walk out of schools to protest gun laws,
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here.
Learn more about Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense In America
To read the "Everytown.org" Action Plan to: "Throw Out" Lawmakers Beholden to the Gun Lobby
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here to learn more.
What Do you know abou school safety protocols?
No Blame for Newtown on School Massacre, Judge Says. . .
“This ruling (which every parent should read) should serve as NOTICE to all parents of young boys and girls: Our children are not safe in public schools,” Papcsy said in a statement (parentheses in original). Papcsy said Wilson’s decision ultimately holds that schools “can never be held accountable if they failed to implement protocols
intended to keep our children and teachers safe in their public schools.”
By ADAM KLASFELD
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for more information.
To Listen to Secretary DeVos on the Parkland shootings, etc.
To read the blog: School Massacres, Gun Control & Politicians,
What do you know about the 2018 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative?
Solicitation Notice - The National Institute of Justice has canceled both the Comprehensive School Safety Initiative and Research and Evaluation of Technologies to Improve School Safety solicitations. With the enactment of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, the funding planned for these solicitations is no longer available for research and evaluation. Instead, it will be used for other purposes under the Stop School Violence Act of 2018.
What is the Stop School Violence Act of 2018?
What do you know about funding for safe schools?
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More News
Across the Nation
(& World)
Notes From the Field: If You Want Great Schools, First Work With Parents to Create ‘Actionable Demand’
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Your state department of education will choose your statewide family engagement center but do they have the capacity to choose a center without widespread public input?
(Note: There is still "a lack of information and research about how state
education agencies can effectively design, support, and effect district and school improvement
efforts, etc. and how these agencies can differentiate and scale up improvement efforts."
Today, many states have weak school turnaround goals and are still not in a position to choose school reform efforts without the broad involvement of communities .
(Please review your state accountability plan for more info.)
These same facts apply to Secretary DeVos who has very little experience in governance.
This goal is particularly important under the Trump Administration.
But how will this work if clientelism is a part of this equation?
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The Results from the 2017 NAEP mathematics and reading assessments are in!
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To learn more about waived college application fees, click
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For waived SAT fees, click
here.
To learn why 47% of students are not prepared for college, click
here.
What does it take to secure our U.S. Democracy?
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For Trump's State of the Union address
and Joe Kennedy's response to it, click
here
.
For highlights of the DC Women's March,
News about the "Direct Student Services Program of Title One"
second download on their list.
Have you contacted your elected officials about the upcoming gun law
vote?
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here (Sandy Hook's Promise) and
here (Giffords Courage)
to learn more.
Have You Contacted Your Elected Officials About the Tax Bill? If not, click
here
or click
here
,
here,
here
,
here
,
here,
here,
here,
here
,
here
,
here,
and
here to learn what other organizatons are doing across the nation to oppose this bill.
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3% of white women voted for Trump, a known misogynist and, to many,
racist . What should parents do
when their children say their teachers promote the POTUS and his biased if not racist ideas
? Clearly, Trump's policy preferences,
etc
. have made him into the least popular POTUS in history (for reasons that require mandatory teachable moments for children). This fact alone means that the majority of Americans do not see him as the chief U.S. standard bearer or role model for children. Michelle Obama's words of wisdom, therefore, still stand: when (he) "they go low we go high" --- a necessary first step that should be easy to determine --- even if it requires all voters to tell their politicians to: "
hold the line
" on behalf of fairness and decency.
which include those that address unfair disciplinary practices against ---let's say a five year old...
States are setting their college ready standards
too low... Learn more
here and
here
. Also read
why only 3 states expect their 8th graders to be
on a college ready path... by clicking
here.
To read: How States Are "Getting Honest" About How
Few Kids Are On Track For College,
Click
here to learn about the NAEP 12th grade results.
Are parents being misled about test results?