Read powerful Open Letter to Joe Biden

from Diane Ravitch and Carol Burris

of the Network for Public Education 

co-signed by 4J School Board member Gordon Lafer

and friends of CAPE Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au, and Bill Bigelow


Among its calls: "A reinvestment in public education; an end to high stakes standardized testing; and support for the NAACP's call for a moratorium on corporate charter schools.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/26/demanding-end-failed-billionaire-backed-policies-200-teachers-and-activists-urge

Read this powerful New York Times Editorial

calling for the end of the SAT and ACT Standardized Tests

for admission to the California University System

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/opinion/napolitano-california-sat.html

            UPDATE: The Regents of the California University System voted to do this:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-21/uc-drops-sat-and-act-test-requirement-for-admission

Read this Guest Viewpoint by CAPE members Roscoe and Larry

in the Eugene Register-Guard

"We advocate a new direction — a more balanced course that moves the district toward increased amounts of innovation and creativity and employee confidence. Our leader must draw out the best and brightest ideas from all within the organization."

https://www.registerguard.com/opinion/20200518/guest-view-district-leader-for-these-times

Read Editorial by Washington Post columnist Esther J. Cepeda in Sunday's RG

The question is: Will those who have the power to provide the money needed to open up schools safely believe that they are investing in students, teachers and education — or in daycare?

https://www.pantagraph.com/opinion/columnists/cepeda-coronavirus-finally-proves-that-teachers-are-essential/article_f96753d9-61bd-5358-98d8-b24b221f5bf0.html

Read CAPE member Bob Cassidy's excellent letter to 

the Register Guard calling for a Volunteer Coordinator

"The Eugene School Board needs to hire a staff person to coordinate and foster the many people who would love to dedicate some hours to help out our overworked teachers."

https://www.registerguard.com/opinion/20200501/power-of-volunteers

Read this Guest Editorial by 3 parents of Eugene 4J students

https://www.registerguard.com/opinion/20200425/guest-view-what-is-4j-without-its-volunteers

"... we hold hope that a diverse array of stakeholders will be valued. Through inclusion, we can reach a point where a lack of transparency is no longer a consistent issue." 

Read Eugene Register-Guard's Editorial on 

School District 4J's School Board's Process for Hiring Interim Supt

https://www.registerguard.com/opinion/20200405/our-view-slow-down-and-open-up-process

"....This is a matter of public trust, with long-term implications There remains a fundamental and worrisome disconnect between what the Eugene School Board defines as transparency vs. what everyone else thinks."