Over the past several months, I have had the opportunity to get to know and to work with a core group of dedicated teachers and parents in South Memphis who are smart, savvy, committed, unrelenting, and fearless in doing what is necessary to beat back the privatizers and profiteers who now think they call the shots for Memphis schools.
These new friends and colleagues have attended school board meetings, where they heated up the microphones, and they have gone on TV and radio to get the message out on the ASD corporate charter handout organization and its homegrown equivalent, the IZone. They are determined to keep their community schools open.
This group, OurStudents MatterNow, has plans save South Side Middle School from being shut down and turned over the charter industry, which is waiting to swoop in to score another big real estate deal and to devastate another community that loves its school.
They need your help. OurStudents MatterNow has started a legal defense fund to take their case into the courts, and they are planning for public demonstrations and organizing events this Spring.
If you want to put your money at Ground Zero of the effort to save community schools and make them better, please help these dedicated citizens. Their GoFundMe site is here: http://www.gofundme.com/ourstudentsmatter
Their other contact information is
ourstudentsmatternow@gmail.com or memphis.teachers@mail.com
These new friends and colleagues have attended school board meetings, where they heated up the microphones, and they have gone on TV and radio to get the message out on the ASD corporate charter handout organization and its homegrown equivalent, the IZone. They are determined to keep their community schools open.
This group, OurStudents MatterNow, has plans save South Side Middle School from being shut down and turned over the charter industry, which is waiting to swoop in to score another big real estate deal and to devastate another community that loves its school.
They need your help. OurStudents MatterNow has started a legal defense fund to take their case into the courts, and they are planning for public demonstrations and organizing events this Spring.
If you want to put your money at Ground Zero of the effort to save community schools and make them better, please help these dedicated citizens. Their GoFundMe site is here: http://www.gofundme.com/ourstudentsmatter
Their other contact information is
ourstudentsmatternow@gmail.com or memphis.teachers@mail.com
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