Below are the key organizations to watch and listen to in the fight against vouchers and state-funded tax-credit programs.
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State
www.au.org/issues/religious-school-vouchers/
Below are organizations and studies documenting the harmful effects of vouchers on our nation's students and public school system:
"To build our public education system back up to its former world-class status, we must invest dollars there, not in programs, such as vouchers, that have proven to be ineffective for thousands of children and communities across our nation."
- Tina Dove, National Opportunity to Learn Campaign Director
Report: Test, Punish and Push Out: How zero-tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school-to-prison pipeline
Advancement Project
“Schools that rely on security guards and metal detectors to create safety may end up creating an environment that is so repressive that it is no longer conducive to learning.”
- Pedro Noguera, Executive Director, Metropolitan Center for Urban Education
From our Opportunity to Learn Campaign, the School-to-Prison Pipeline Toolkit includes an overview, talking points, key data and resources – everything you'll need to advocate for a fair and substantive opportunity to learn for all children.
Why do schools in high-poverty neighborhoods have fewer textbooks, foreign language offerings, Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate courses, and smaller libraries than schools in middle-class neighborhoods? Why do wealthier kids have teachers and principals with more credentials, experience and talent? And more importantly, how do we make change happen so all students can proceed from the same starting line?
This is an edited version of a commentary given by Stan Karp , a teacher of English and journalism in Paterson, N.J., for 30 years. Karp spoke on Oct. 1 at the fourth annual Northwest Teachers for Justice conference in Seattle. He is now the director of the Secondary Reform Project for New Jersey’s Education Law Center and an editor of the 25-year-old Rethinking Schools magazine. A video and fuller version of the commentary can be found here.
This is an edited version of a commentary given by Stan Karp , a teacher of English and journalism in Paterson, N.J., for 30 years. Karp spoke on Oct. 1 at the fourth annual Northwest Teachers for Justice conference in Seattle. He is now the director of the Secondary Reform Project for New Jersey’s Education Law Center and an editor of the 25-year-old Rethinking Schools magazine.
