Thousands "Party" down to Promote Public Schools

Autor/in	Keller, Bess
Titel	Thousands "Party" down to Promote Public Schools
Quelle	In: Education Week, 24 (2004) 5, S.1 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Public Schools; Community Organizations; Educational Change; Educational Finance; Financial Support; Public Opinion; Advocacy; Politics of Education; Community Involvement; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Bildungsreform; Bildungsfonds; Finanzielle Förderung; Öffentliche Meinung; Sozialanwaltschaft; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; USA
Abstract	In this article, the author reports some 3,800 near-simultaneous "house parties" organized throughout Pennsylvania to call on their federal lawmakers to put more money into education. The parties, in which three-quarters of them were organized by teachers such as Jane Dugdale, are the main election-season event of a new coalition of groups trying to raise the profile of education at all levels of government. The liberal-leaning coalition, officially the National Mobilization for Great Public Schools, includes the National Education Association (NEA); the political-advocacy group MoveOn.org; the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN; the U.S. Hispanic Leadership Institute; and the NAACP National Voter fund. Another goal of the parties plainly was to energize those already inclined to favor additional spending on education and in accord with the NEA's stance that the sweeping education law badly needs "fixing and funding." Moreover, organizers of the national event stressed that the parties were nonpartisan and issue-oriented, designed to draw people who might not agree with liberal positions. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10