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07/07/2016

RIP Philando Castile

Philando Castile's St. Paul school community is in mourning.

08/26/2015

"Eastside Memorial High School at the Johnston Campus didn't just suddenly become a good school. It's been a good school for years. It's just that now it's beaten the gamed system that's claimed otherwise."

::PAWS UP! Show your pride! We didn't let them close EASTSIDE!!::

Eastside school celebrates after meeting accountability standards for first time in more than a decade

04/30/2015

04/16/2015

The Eastside Memorial HS family are enduring a terrible tragedy. Please help them out if you can.

Maleeca was so full of life. She was your typical 20 year old college student. Her smile only made you want to smile more. On Sunday April 12, 2015 she was on her way home when a drunk driver ran a red light and hit her car. On that night God was blessed with a new angel. Maleeca's mom and...

11/13/2014

Help out the Eastside Memorial HS Panther Band -- the little band with a lot of heart.

The Eastside Panther Band is the biggest little band in all of Texas! We are the pep band from Eastside Memorial High School in Austin, Texas, and we strive to be the most entertaining high school band you'll ever see! Whether we're playing music from Frozen or jamming to the latest hit from D...

09/09/2014

If anyone missed the first meeting but still wants to be involved, fill out this doodle to let us know what times are good. Looking forward to having some of you there!

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08/28/2014

Education Austin speaks on the KEYE We Are Austin morning show!

WITH THE START OF THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR, ONE GROUP IS REALLY BUSY. MONTSERRAT GARIBAY AND TRASEL

08/23/2014

"Many black youth have had their caps and gowns snatched from them and replaced with orange jumpsuits, as students are funneled into what is commonly called the “school-to-prison-pipeline”—a series of interlocking policies such as zero tolerance discipline and high suspension rates, overbearing police presence in schools, and high-stakes exit exams required for graduation. But increasingly it appears police are intent on constructing what I guess we now must term the “school-to-grave-pipeline”— a series of interlocking policies such as giving police weapons designed for war zones, the disproportionate policing of areas frequented by black youth, and incentivizing police to shoot black people by not arresting them and giving them paid leave when they do. The school-to-grave-pipeline is not only a problem in Ferguson. Nationally, a study revealed that a black person is killed by police somewhere in the United States every 36 hours."

“We were at graduation, me and him, and we were talking. He said he wasn’t going to end up like some people on the streets. He was going to get an education.” --Hershel Johnson, a friend Michael Br...

08/14/2014

This Saturday, Aug. 16th, 1 PM - Central Market on N. Lamar - there will be a teach-in, discussion, debrief, etc. for educators to talk about what's happening in Ferguson, MO and the death of Michael Brown.

08/14/2014

Hey folks - just got an email from Young Activists United in STL who are asking for solidarity events for Michael Brown this Saturday at 1 PM. I've been really struggling about how to talk about this with students, how to talk about this with colleagues and administrators, what kinds of activities would be appropriate, how as a teacher of social justice I can educate my students about racism, and the multiple cases of murders of black people by police. Would anyone be interested in meeting this Saturday at 1 PM to have a teach-in?

07/16/2014

"We know what happened with the unregulated mortgage industry. Well now an unregulated charter school industry is getting billions of dollars of tax payer funds without any oversight. When schools are unregulated you have discrimination against English Language Learners and students with special needs, inflated salaries of school leaders and CEOs, school discipline policies that border on abuse, re-segregation of neighborhood schools and the practice of driving out students who score badly on tests. AND you have all kinds of examples of embezzlement, financial fraud and fiscal mismanagement."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIf0xpVBZKQ&app=desktop

Mark Naison debunks Charter School mythology in this episode of Education News. Comparing the Charter School explosion to the subprime mortgage collapse, Nai...

07/12/2014

A great interview with an amazing parent advocate about the takeover of public schools in post-Katrina New Orleans.

By next fall, New Orleans will have only five public schools—those operated by the Orleans Parish School Board. Everything else will be charters. The post-Katrina path to almost 100 percent charter education began with the post-storm shutdown of the city’s struggling public schools and the firing (r…