Read - and comment on - these CNN columns by OTL allies!

EDUCATION FOR ALL IS A "MORAL IMPERATIVE" Providing every child with a fair and substantive opportunity to learn is nothing less than a moral imperative, writes Rev. Jesse Jackson in a must-read column for CNN. As parent and student organizers across the country know all too well, today's education policies, which push competition and privatization, are not sufficient for "addressing the structural inequities that make separate and unequal education a persistent fact of life in America today." Read more>

GETTING EDUCATION REFORM RIGHT Today's education policy is "merely treating the fever we see and ignoring the cancer that causes it," writes John Kuhn, a Texas superintendent, in another powerful CNN column. Kuhn cites the National Opportunity to Learn Campaign's "2020 Vision Roadmap: A Pre-K Through Postsecondary Blueprint for Educational Success" as the vision to lead the systemic change needed in our public schools in order to provide every student with the opportunites and resources they need to succeed. Read more>

• PA Parents Sue to Stop School Closure: A group of parents in Pennsylvania filed a federal lawsuit to stop the planned closure of a local school. The parents criticize the school district for not first trying to remedy underlying problems, such as putting inexperienced teachers in low-income classrooms, before moving to privatize the public school system. Read more>
  
  
• NYC Budget Cuts Create After-School Crisis: As education budgets are slashed, after-school programs are cut. In NYC, those programs have provided vital services for students, but now communities and the city will lose out on those benefits as the programs are shut down. Read more>