Check Out Register Guard Guest Viewpoint

                                by Retired Teacher and Educational Activist Paul Bodin

https://www.registerguard.com/story/opinion/columns/2021/02/14/guest-view-re-thinking-public-school-ahead-re-opening/6709282002/

 

Check out this new study on 

Online Charter Schools

by Gordon Lafer, Eugene parent and School Board member

COSTLY FAILURE

A new report by In the Public Interest on how California is overpaying for online charter schools that are failing students

http://costlyfailure.org

• • California is overpaying for nonclassroom-based charter schools by over $600 million per year.
• • Californians pay approximately $10,300 for every student who attends one of Pearson’s Connections Academy online charter schools.

 Parents

You can Opt your child Out of 4J easyCBM 

standardized reading and math tests -

ALL Standardized Tests

  Read North Eugene H.S. Senior Diego Hernandez's outstanding, eloquent Guest Editorial

           on dealing with COVID, distance learning, and offering advice to his teachers

"Create change that's been put aside for years. Allow our teachers to lead the charge so we can be the change."

https://www.registerguard.com/story/opinion/columns/2020/10/04/covid-19-and-my-senior-year/3589283001/

 Read Jerry Rosiek's outstanding, eloquent Open Letter to area teachers

thanking them for their hard work and standing with them.

https://www.registerguard.com/story/opinion/columns/2020/09/29/teachers-you-seen-deeply-appreciated/3562798001/

Educators' March for Black Lives Matter

Friday at Noon

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