Voting has begun! I am running for president of the Seattle Education Association (SEA) with a dozen other educators on the RESPECT ticket. We want to transform our union to become a powerful force to defend public education from corporate education reformers. Many of us were leaders in the MAP test boycott and we all believe …
Month: April 2014
Arne Duncan has labeled my school—and every school in Washington State—a failure. Cue the revolt.
The ultimate absurdity of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has been visited upon my home state of Washington. One of the many outlandish propositions of NCLB was that 100 percent of students at all schools in the United States would be fully proficient in reading and math, as registered by student test scores, …
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Help Elect RESPECT: Donate to support social justice union slate & Jesse Hagopian’s bid for president of the Seattle Education Association
We need your help raising $1,000 to help us reclaim public education I am writing to ask for your support in my bid to be the president of the Seattle Education Association (SEA)--the union representing teachers, instructional assistants, councilors, clerical workers, and support staff who work in the Seattle Public Schools. No one I have …
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“An Act of Conscience”: Teachers at New York’s Earth School boycott Common Core Tests!
Last spring I was invited to the Earth School in the East Village of New York City to speak at a forum about the lessons of the MAP test boycott that I helped to organize in Seattle. Earth School 4th and 5th grade teacher Jia Lee, along with insurgent teacher union activists in MORE and …
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Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality: Support the publication of this new book for educators
VIDEO: Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality Supporters of social justice education will be thrilled to learn that Rethinking Schools is currently working on a new book, Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality. In order to put this invaluable tool in the hands of educators, we need your support. Please consider donating to this book project. From …
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