Press Release
Memphis Parents Urge
SCS School to Stop Closing Community Schools and to Start Supporting Them
April 21, 2015
Memphis, TN—Parents, students, teachers, and community
members will rally April 21 at 160 South Hollywood at 4:30 PM to demand support for
community schools and to oppose SCS Board plans to turn over community schools
to the IZone and to charter school companies chosen by the State’s Achievement
School District. The protest rally is
sponsored by OurStudentsMatterNow,
and all citizens who care about keeping public schools public in Memphis are urged
to come out and support this effort.
OurStudentsMatterNow demands
and end to the use of high stakes tests to target schools in urban communities
for closure and turnover, and the organization is urging the Shelby County
School Board to commit the financial support required to improve the quality of
historically underfunded public schools in economically-disadvantaged
neighborhoods of Memphis.
This protest rally represents the first of many public
efforts by OurStudentsMatterNow to
generate support for quality public schools for all Shelby County children. OurStudentsMatterNow has established a legal defense fund to
take their case into the courts, and they are planning for public demonstrations
and organizing events this Spring and into the next school year.
Those wanting
to contribute to the effort to save community schools in Memphis may do so by
coming out to rally with OurStudentsMatterNow
and by giving generously at the GoFundMe site here: http://www.gofundme.com/ourstudentsmatter
For further
information, contact
ourstudentsmatternow@gmail.com or memphis.teachers@mail.com
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