Northern Notes- Fighting for Public Education in the Last Frontier

I feel this.

For real though! 💯

Absolutely.

Spoken from experience.

If you hate unions, you hate me.

If you actually want to empower the middle class, this is a great way to get things started!

How the PRO Act restores workers’ right to unionize: A chart of the ways the PRO Act fixes major problems in current labor law Nearly half of all nonunion workers say they want a union in their workplace. That’s 400% higher than the current percentage of workers represented by a union.1 Current law places too many obstacles in the way of workers trying to organize and gives employers too much power to interfere with worke...

There is no surprise here. Can we just NOT and say we did?!

Exactly! Thoughts?

It’s that time of the year when people start asking me who I think would be good for the School Board.

This year, in particular, there is a coalition of candidates looking to form a decidedly anti-public-education majority on the board so it is important to make sure we get the right folks on the board! Please consider voting for these candidates!

AEA is proud to support these great candidates for Mayor and for School Board.

(Thanks to my friend Ash for posting this one)

From Bill Williamson, on Twitter

We need to reopen schools.

We need to reopen schools before more people realize that all the technology purchased with millions of taxpayer dollars to transform education doesn't really work.

We need to reopen schools because the school to prison pipeline won't fill itself.

We need to reopen schools because how else can affluent suburban families fully realize all the benefits of their heavily segregated enclaves without their children reaping the benefits of our inequitable educational system?

We need to reopen schools because pundits with a platform and young children are really tired.


We need to reopen schools because the College Board needs to push out some tests and boost those revenue numbers, otherwise people might realize that the tests aren't necessary.

We need to reopen schools so it will stop being obvious that many superintendents and principals have no idea how to use technology to educate.

We need to reopen schools so teachers can get back to the important work of spending their own money on supplies, including food, for their students - because the same people who clutch their pearls about the importance of education clutch their wallets when it's time to fund it.

We need to reopen schools so things can start to get back to normal, and the impacts of our decades long failure to support public education for all students is less visible.