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DESCRIPTION:Defend Public Education, Charters: Connecting the Dots and Privatization - 
 Conference\nThis conference will look at th history of the charter 
 movement, how it has taken over the regulation of our education system, and 
 how it is re-segregating education in California and nationally.\n Public 
 education in California is facing destruction in every direction. 
 Supporters of charters and privatization over the last 30 years have seized 
 control of the California Board of Education and also the Commission on 
 Teacher Credentials (CTC). The deregulation of education rules in 
 California allows a massive expansion of privately run charter schools in 
 shopping malls and highly toxic industrial sites, even when local 
 communities and school boards oppose their establishment.\n Proposition 39, 
 which passed in California, is now diverting hundreds of millions of 
 dollars to building new charter schools with non-union labor and replacing 
 unionized teachers with TFA and non-certified teachers. They are also 
 allowing charters to grab up rooms and spaces at public schools and even 
 setting up charters inside high schools and other public schools, creating 
 chaos. Some charters in California are now run by Christian and Moslem 
 sects who demand that students pray to play and indoctrinate students in 
 their religious ideology with public funds.\n Many of these charter schools 
 have been set up with support from the Gates Foundation, the Wal-Mart 
 Family through their Walton Foundation, the Broad Foundation, The Fisher 
 Family KIPP Foundation, and Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Foundation.\n They are 
 driven by more testing through companies like Pearson and spend tens of 
 millions on more computers rather than teachers. They are also attacking 
 the teacher pension Cal-STRS by spiking the pension system and preventing 
 new teachers from joining this state public pension system.\nSponsored by: 
 Fairmede Hilltop Neighborhood Council, United Public Workers For Action, 
 Voices Against Privatizing Public Education, Defend Public Education\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.upwa.info/\nhttp://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/2274/Fairmede-Hilltop-Neighborhood-Council\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2016/2016schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/22/18787886.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Defend Public Education-Conference
LOCATION:Richmond High School - 1250 23rd St. Richmond, CA (Room TBA)\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/22/18787886.php
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