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DESCRIPTION:There will be a picket of union buster and privatizer Arne Duncan who is 
 the US Secretary Of Education. He has supported the mass firing of teachers 
 and is working with privateers to destroy public education.\n\nUnited 
 Public Workers for 
 Action\n\n\nhttp://www.upwa.info/documents/6-25-10-Duncan.htm\n\nJune 25, 
 2010 Protest \nof Union Buster and Privatizer US Education Secretary Arnie 
 Duncan \nAt FOOTHILL COLLEGE\n\nSTOP (AND REVERSE) THE PRIVATIZATION OF 
 PUBLIC EDUCATION!!!\n\nProtest Picket of Privatizer Arne Duncan\nFriday 
 June 25th, 5:00 PM in the Library Quad at Foothill College\n12345 El Monte 
 Road in Los Altos Hills (El Monte Road and Interstate 
 280)\nhttp://www.foothill.edu/news/maps.php\n\nUnited Public Workers for 
 Action\nFounded January 2009\nSan Francisco, 
 California\nwww.UPWA.info\n\nPress Release\n\nThe United Public Workers for 
 Action will carry out demonstrations protesting the appearance of United 
 States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s participation at Foothill 
 Community Colleges’ graduation ceremonies on June 25. Duncan will deliver 
 the keynote address. The action at Foothill College, Friday, June 25, will 
 begin at 5 pm. Duncan is the former chief executive officer of the Chicago 
 Public Schools. Foothill College is located at 12345 El Monte Road in Los 
 Altos Hills (El Monte Road and Interstate 280)\n\nThe intent of the UPWA 
 actions is to show public outrage at the Obama Administrations’ 
 privatization of Public Education policies; policies which are severely 
 impacting state and local Public Education. Duncan, who is credited with 
 raising test scores and educational standards in Chicago, actually 
 facilitated the further privatization of Public Education in Chicago. This 
 was achieved through the expansion of charter schools and the weakening of 
 the public teacher’s union. The UPWA feels it is ironic and tragic that 
 the Foothill-DeAnza Community College District is allowing a certified 
 enemy of Public Education to give the keynote addresses at Foothill College 
 and DeAnza College, at a moment when Public Education in California is 
 facing a historic attack; an attack, which if not halted by public 
 response, will destroy Public Education.\n\nSince becoming Secretary of 
 Education, Duncan has been the chief architect of the Obama 
 Administrations’ “Race to the Top” education policy. Presented as a 
 means to improve Public Education in the United States, that policy is the 
 continuation of the three decade-long assault on Public Education which 
 began with the Reagan Administrations’ “A Nation at Risk” policy. The 
 intent of that policy has been to: 1) promote the expansion of 
 privately-managed charter schools; 2) deepen the access to public 
 educational resources for corporate-interests; 3) smash teacher unions, 
 thus weakening the political power of those unions, and cutting the cost of 
 teachers; and, 4) eliminate multicultural, revisionist, internationalist, 
 and critical perspectives from the school curricula.\nThe 2008 collapse of 
 the financial system, amplified by chronic over-lapping federal, state and 
 local budgetary crises, has provided a “win-dow of opportunity” to 
 intensify this assault.\n\nThe intent of Obama’s education policy was 
 made clear in a statement he made, in February, 2010, after the Central 
 Falls, Rhode Island school district fired 93 unionized teachers, alleging 
 that they were responsible for “failing” standardized test scores. In 
 what could be considered Obama’s PATCO Moment, he stated: “…if a 
 school continues to fail its students year after year after year, if it 
 doesn’t show signs of improve-ment, then there’s got to be a sense of 
 accountability,…” Just like Reagan opened the door for the attack on 
 unions when he fired 13,000 air controllers in 1981, unionized teachers now 
 are increasingly vulnerable.\n\nUPWA BACKGROUND AND CONTACT INFORMATION: 
 The UPWA is an organizing committee and network, formed in 2009 by San 
 Francisco Bay Area union members and activists committed to bring public 
 workers in the state together to challenge the current economic/budget 
 crisis in California. The objective of the organizers is to develop a 
 unified-statewide coalition and present an alter- native political agenda 
 to confront the economic/budget crisis in California in the defense of 
 public workers and the recipients of public services. To inform public 
 workers and the recipients of public services the UPWA will provide 
 educational forums on the root causes of the crisis and its political 
 implications, and the organization’s political alternative 
 agenda.\nwww.upwa.info\nOther endorsements to follow\n\nEducation Secretary 
 and Privatizer Duncan apologizes for Katrina comments-Hurricane Katrina was 
 "the best thing that happened to the education system in New 
 Orleans,"\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020201661.html\nBACK 
 TO BASICS: Arne Duncan's School Reform Plan: Fire 
 Everyone\nhttp://www.ednews.org/articles/back-to-basics-arne-duncans-school-reform-plan-fire-everyone.html\nObama's 
 Education Secretary Arne Duncan's As Flim-Flam Man-Hustling Education 
 Privatization While Destroying Public 
 Education\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/28/AR2009122802368.html?hpid=topnews\nObama's 
 & Duncan's Privatization Scheme Responsible For Chicago Murder? Hundreds at 
 meeting with schools chief on teen's fatal 
 beating\nhttp://www.wbbm780.com/Hundreds-at-meeting-with-schools-chief-on-teen-s--/5342757\nObama's 
 "Way-to-Go, Brownie!" 
 Moment?\n\n\nhttp://www.gregpalast.com/obamas-way-to-go-brownie-moment/#more-2171\n\n\nPress 
 RELEASE 5/25/2010 Picket/Protest Against US Education Sec Arne Duncan At 
 Foothill College\n5:30PM \nThe United Public Workers for Action will carry 
 out an information picket protesting United States Secretary of Education 
 Arne Duncan’s keynote address at Foothill Community Colleges’ 
 graduation ceremony on June 25.\nThe action at Foothill College, Friday, 
 June 25, will begin at 5 pm. Foothill College is located at 12345 El Monte 
 Road in Los Altos Hills (El Monte Road and Interstate 280.)\n\nThe UPWA 
 action is intended to show public outrage at the Obama Administrations’ 
 privatization of Public Education policies; policies which are severely 
 impacting state and local Public Education. Duncan, who is the former chief 
 executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools, is credited with raising 
 test scores and educational standards in Chicago.\n \nIn actuality, he 
 facilitated the further privatization of Public Education in Chicago.  This 
 was achieved through the expansion of charter schools and the weakening of 
 the public teacher’s union.  \n\nSince becoming Secretary of Education, 
 Duncan has been the chief architect of the Obama Administrations’ “Race 
 to the Top” education policy.  Presented as a means to improve Public 
 Education in the United States, that policy is the continuation of the 
 three decade-long assault on Public Education which began with the Reagan 
 Administrations’ “A Nation at Risk” policy.  The intent of that 
 policy has been to: 1) promote the expansion of privately-managed charter 
 schools; 2) deepen the access to public educational resources for 
 corporate-interests; 3) smash teacher unions, thus weakening the political 
 power of those unions, and cutting the cost of teachers; and, 4) eliminate 
 multicultural, revisionist, internationalist, and critical perspectives 
 from the school curricula.\n\nThe action at Foothill College, Friday, June 
 25, will begin at 5 pm. Foothill College is located at 12345 El Monte Road 
 in Los Altos Hills (El Monte Road and Interstate 280.)\n\nUPWA BACKGROUND 
 AND CONTACT INFORMATION:  The UPWA is an organizing committee and network, 
 formed in 2009 by San Francisco Bay Area union members and activists 
 committed to bring public workers in the state together to challenge the 
 current economic/budget crisis in California. The objective of the 
 organizers is to develop a unified-statewide coalition and present an 
 alternative political agenda to confront the economic/budget crisis in 
 California in the defense of public workers and the recipients of public 
 services. To inform public workers and the recipients of public services 
 the UPWA will provide educational forums on the root causes of the crisis 
 and its political implications, and the organization’s political 
 alternative agenda.\nwww.upwa.info\n\nContact\n\nEndorsed by  "Raging 
 Grannies Action League, San Francisco Peace & Freedom Central 
 Committee\n\n\n\nEducation Secretary and Privatizer Duncan apologizes for 
 Katrina comments-Hurricane Katrina was "the best thing that happened to the 
 education system in New 
 Orleans,"\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020201661.html\nBACK 
 TO BASICS: Arne Duncan's School Reform Plan: Fire 
 Everyone\nhttp://www.ednews.org/articles/back-to-basics-arne-duncans-school-reform-plan-fire-everyone.html\nObama's 
 Education Secretary Arne Duncan's As Flim-Flam Man-Hustling Education 
 Privatization While Destroying Public 
 Education\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/28/AR2009122802368.html?hpid=topnews\nObama's 
 & Duncan's Privatization Scheme Responsible For Chicago Murder? Hundreds at 
 meeting with schools chief on teen's fatal 
 beating\nhttp://www.wbbm780.com/Hundreds-at-meeting-with-schools-chief-on-teen-s--/5342757\nhttp://www.gregpalast.com/obamas-way-to-go-brownie-moment/#more-2171\nObama's 
 "Way-to-Go, Brownie!" Moment?\n\nYouTube - Chicago CTU Pres Elect and CORE 
 Candidate Karen Lewis Election Victory Press Conference-The Beginning Of 
 The End Of Scapegoating 
 Teachers\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42TtWpO9vf0\nMiloWolf — June 12, 
 2010 — June 12, 2010--In a union election with national significance, 
 Karen Lewis, CORE caucus candidate for President of Chicago Teachers Union, 
 decisively defeated incumbent Marilyn Stewart. As reported at 
 www.substance.net, American Arbitration Association announced early in the 
 morning on June 12 that Lewis got 12,080 votes to Stewart's 8,326. Over her 
 years in power Stewart froze up when Arne Duncan, then head of Chicago 
 Public Schools, pushed school privatizations, turnarounds, obsessive 
 testing, closures and massive teacher layoffs. During this period Karen 
 Lewis and the Caucus of Rank and File Educators organized a strong fight 
 back against these measures. Lewis' victory today represents a major 
 national challenge to now-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and his 
 policies, today being forced onto every school system in the U.S. "This 
 election shows the unity of 30,000 educators standing strong to put 
 business in its place: out of our schools!" The Chicago Teachers Union 
 Local 1 is the largest union in the state of Illinois. 10 minutes. Produced 
 by Labor Beat. Labor Beat is a CAN TV Community Partner. Labor Beat is a 
 non-profit 501(c)(3) member of IBEW 1220. Views are those of the producer 
 Labor Beat. For info: mail@laborbeat.org, www.laborbeat.org. 312-226-3330. 
 For other Labor Beat videos, visit Google Video, YouTube, or blip.tv and 
 search "Labor Beat".\nhttp://coreteachers.org/\nSunday, June 13, 2010 
 \nKaren Lewis, CTU President-Elect Acceptance Speech\n6-12-10 Karen Lewis, 
 CTU President-elect\n\nElection Acceptance Speech\n\nI want to thank 
 everyone who made today a reality – the CORE members who worked 
 tirelessly for this day, the CTU members who voted for us, and the 
 thousands of teachers, parents and students who stand up each and every day 
 to improve and defend public education, often against some very powerful 
 forces.  On behalf of CPS students, I want to personally thank my fellow 
 teachers and paraprofessional educators for the long hours you work off the 
 clock every day under increasingly challenging circumstances.  Thank you.  
 We will work night and day to deliver on the trust you have placed in 
 us.\n\nToday marks the beginning of the end of scapegoating educators for 
 all the social ills that our children, families and schools struggle 
 against every day.  Today marks the beginning of a fight for true 
 transparency in our educational policy — how to accurately measure 
 learning and teaching, how to truly improve our schools, and how to 
 evaluate the wisdom behind our spending priorities.\n\nThis election shows 
 the unity of 30,000 educators standing strong to put business in its place 
 – out of our schools.  Corporate America sees K-12 public education as 
 380 billion dollars that, up until the last 10 or 15 years, they didn’t 
 have a sizeable piece of. This so-called school reform is not an education 
 plan.  It’s a business plan and mayoral control of our schools, and our 
 Board of Education, is the linchpin of their operation.\n\n15 years ago, 
 this city purposely began starving our lowest-income neighborhood schools 
 of greatly needed resources and personnel.  Class sizes rose, and schools 
 were closed.  Then, standardized tests which, in this town alone is a $60 
 million dollar business, measured that slow death by starvation.  These 
 tests labeled our students, families and educators failures because 
 standardized tests reveal more about a student’s zip code than a 
 student’s academic growth.  And that, in turn – that perceived school 
 failure — fed parent demand for charters, turnarounds and contract 
 schools.   People thought it must be true, and it must be theteachers’ 
 fault, because they read about it every week in the papers.  And our Union 
 that has been controlled by the same faction for 37 of 40 years didn’t 
 point out this simple reality – what drives so-called school reform is a 
 singular focus on profit.  Profit, not teaching, not learning.  
 Profit.\n\nIn Chicago, we’ve seen CPS close 70 neighborhood schools and 
 open 70 charters that do no better.  6,000 Chicago Teachers Union members 
 have lost their livelihoods – their jobs – their dignity – in the 
 process.  Countless children have lost their friends, and families have 
 lost their schools that, for most, are a source of pride, tradition and 
 safety.\n\nOf course, just as our city’s social conditions must improve, 
 many of our schools must improve too.  But we have hundreds of thriving 
 schools filled with dedicated, loving, and professional educators and 
 administrators who are wise enough to empower teachers to lead.\n\nOutside 
 of the classroom, we need society to recommit to bettering all communities. 
  We also need our parents to recommit to the education of their children.  
 But inside the classroom, the only people who can improve our schools are 
 professional educators.  Corporate heads and politicians do not have a clue 
 about teaching and learning.  They have never sat one minute on this side 
 of a teacher’s desk.  But they’re the ones calling the shots and 
 we’re supposed to accept it as “reform.”\n\nAs a Union of 30,000 
 united educators, we have a lot of work to do … and we know we can’t do 
 it alone.  We need to work together and rethink education policy here in 
 Chicago.  I am asking that Mayor Daley and Mr. Huberman line up their 
 allies in Springfield, and we’ll line up ours, to stop this annual ritual 
 of “crisis budgeting”.  Once and for all we need to change how Illinois 
 funds its schools — 60% from property taxes and 30% from the state.  We 
 need to reverse that, flip it on its head, so ALL children, no matter the 
 value of their family’s home, have equal access to quality 
 education.\n\nAnd while we’re in Springfield together, let’s make sure 
 that the average CPS teachers’ retirement – just $39,000 a year, yes, 
 that’s the average, $39,000 and that’s WITHOUT Social Security – is 
 safe and sound.  The law says our pension fund has to be at 90% … it’s 
 about 60% now.  We need to follow that law together.\n\nNow, back home here 
 in Chicago, we need to put ALL the financial details on the table, because 
 teachers got pink-slips THIS week – and yet Chicagoans have not seen a 
 clear, transparent and detailed CPS budget.  We don’t KNOW the details 
 behind this claimed 6 hundred million deficit, that’s just what we’ve 
 been TOLD.  It’s time for the Board to give citizens all the specifics 
 – how CPS spends our money, on what and to whom.\n\nHow the 250 million 
 in TIFs that should go to schools each year are really spent.  Chicagoans 
 need to know how charters spend their taxpayer dollars because to date, we 
 have not seen one charter school’s financials, not one.\n\nCORE ran a 
 clean campaign calling for a clean government.  We called for budget 
 transparency and a clear read on how social ills outside the schools impact 
 our classrooms on the inside.  Then we can start to change the 
 conversation.\n\nNot what or who to cut, but how to save money and lower, 
 yes, lower classroom sizes.  Not whether yet another one-size-fits-all 
 policy – the latest silver bullet – will work, but how each school can 
 rebuild itself into a responsive learning environment.  And certainly not 
 whether open access for ALL children to high-quality public education is a 
 luxury society simply cannot afford, but rather that true public education 
 – great schools with great teachers – is the most important civil 
 rights battle of our generation.\n\nAnd we will change that conversation 
 because the Chicago Teachers Union is now unified.  Our teachers and 
 paraprofessionals are poised to reclaim the power of our 30,000 members and 
 protect what we love – teaching and learning in publicly-funded public 
 schools.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/06/24/18651780.php
SUMMARY:Protest Of Union Buster & Privatizer US Education Secretary Arnie Duncan At Foothill
LOCATION:Library Quad at Foothill College\n12345 El Monte Road in Los Altos Hills 
 (El Monte Road and Interstate 280)\nhttp://www.foothill.edu/news/maps.php
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