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Apr 15, 2010

SOS: Save Our Schools!

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Today, the Alliance for Educational Justice held its national day of action as a part of its campaign to get a high quality education for every student in the country. Grassroots organizing groups all across the nation held events and rallies to demand changes to No Child Left Behind and a real investment in our education system and in our young people. In Philadelphia, the Student Union and Youth United for Change went to Love Park to do outreach and to get footage for a Public Service Announcement we're putting together to get out the word in support of the campaign.

In honor of tax day, we gave out stickers that people could put on their tax envelopes to help send a message to the federal government that they had to "Invest Their Taxes in Public Education."

We'll post the PSA as soon as it's finished!


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Jan 09, 2010

Call to Action to End School Violence in All of Its Forms!

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Date: January 18th (Martin Luther King Day)
Time: 3pm
Location: 440 North Broad St. (School District Headquarters

Dr. King spent his life using non-violent organizing to combat violence and violent systems and institutions.

As young people, we recognize that our education system is one of these violent institutions, and are com...mitting ourselves to ending school violence in all of its forms- interpersonal and systemic.

Join us in action and in witness as we kick off this campaign for peace and justice in our schools.

Go here to listen to the audio PSA for the event:

http://onblast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-01-09T16_10_18-08_00








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Nov 20, 2009

The Renaissance Schools Process and Community Engagement

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     A major part of the school district's Imagine 2014 plan is the "Renaissance Schools" reform model. Since the plan was approved, it has been unclear exactly what the Renaissance schools process would look like, but the group charged with figuring out how it will work has recently come out with their recommendations. The group is led by Leroy Nunnery, a former head of Edison Schools, a company that in 2001 was at the head of the drive to privatize the Philadelphia public education system. The plan, as it stands now, looks like this: a group of schools will be chosen to be potential Renaissance Schools, and requests will go out for organizations seeking to takeover schools. Next, a final list of schools will come out, and community advisory groups will be pulled together at each school to make recommendations about what will happen. The groups will not have decision-making power; they will only be able to make recommendations. The plan calls for community engagement to play a major role, and although the feedback sessions have all already been completed, there are still ways for community members to influence the plan. Sometime within the next month, the School Reform Commission should be officially voting on the recommendations, and it is important that the people that will be most affected by this testify at that meeting. Also, once the list of Renaissance Schools has been announced, we will encourage members of the communities around those schools to make their voices heard about what they think their schools need.


     It is our hope that the district is sincere in saying that it wants strong community involvement, but we have heard that language before and have been disappointed by the results, to say the least. We will hold the district accountable to engaging communities in decisions that effect them, and will also work to organize these communities to ensure that their voices are respected. 

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May 30, 2009

Student Union hosts the CPERers

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This year the CPER (Communities for Public Education Reform) conference is being held in Philly. The conference gathers groups from Chicago, Denver, Providence, and other cities all over the country to talk about the education reform work going on now and the potential for more work in the future. Student Union had a really great time hosting CPER attendees at two awesome events.On Thursday night we held an open mic and on Friday a site visit came to our office to see some of the work we do around using media as a tool for organizing.

The talent and the energy in the room on Thursday was ridiculous! As for the site visit, we started off by showing some of the media that students here at PSU have produced, and also talked about how we use media in our organizing work. Eventually we moved everyone over to the radio station (WPEB) where we broadcast our radio show - On Blast! (www.onblast.podomatic.com). We interviewed some of the groups live on the air and should be posting a piece or two made from the interviews soon (keep checking that podcast!). It was really powerful and encouraging to be able to talk to other young people who are organizing around a lot of the same issues that we are. Students were engineering, doing the interviews, hosting, and being interviewed

Both days were really important to the movement that we are trying to build: a national movement for quality public schools that liberate students (as a part of the larger movement to end poverty). We started building strong personal relationships and continued to expand our organizational ties.


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