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New Year, New Congress
NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ^ | January 3, 2017 | Lily Eskelsen GarcĂ­a

Posted on 01/03/2017 12:41:29 PM PST by mdittmar

We Urge Members to Hear Our Voices.

However painful 2016 was, a new year offers a fresh start.  This year, we will take nothing for granted.  The challenges we will inevitably face may mean that we can see new strategies and new solutions that would have eluded us in the past.  

2017 marks the start of the 115th Congress, and we’re reaching out to members of Congress to encourage them to approach the unfolding year with a different perspective, too. We’re asking them to put families ahead of partisan politics and renew America’s commitment to public education so that all students, regardless of ZIP code, have the support, tools and time to learn.

(Excerpt) Read more at lilysblackboard.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: education; factoryschooling; learning; unions; vouchers
MSNBC: Lily Eskelsen García reacts to Betsy DeVos's Nomination as Education Secretary
1 posted on 01/03/2017 12:41:29 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

And to protect our corrupt institutions that are keeping our children among the lowest educated in the world because we want to maintain our power over the educational community.


2 posted on 01/03/2017 12:45:41 PM PST by rapture-me
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When the teachers' unions and their Democrat Party sycophants begin to put the learning performance of children ahead of the employment interests and voting patterns of union members, then parents/citizens should pay attention to union leaders such as this one!
3 posted on 01/03/2017 12:46:52 PM PST by loveliberty2
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Yeah right! See what this broad says when Common Core is repealed!


4 posted on 01/03/2017 12:50:54 PM PST by gr8eman (Keep Winning!)
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To: mdittmar
We’re asking them to put families ahead of partisan politics...

And of course the National Education Association would never, I repeat, never, resort to something as base and déclassé as 'partisan politics'. And of course the National Education Association always puts families and the welfare and needs of children ahead of their own parochial interests (such as looting the taxpayers).

Wait, wut?

Even of you're a brain-dead leftist who was indoctrinated in government schools, that one doesn't pass the laugh test.

5 posted on 01/03/2017 1:04:26 PM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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Betsy should tweet LIly: “You’re fired and I am shutting down and eliminating the Department of Education. Now go wet yourself.”


6 posted on 01/03/2017 1:08:38 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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