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DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM and Network For Public Education Action present\n\nDiane 
 Ravitch in Conversation with Jitu Brown\nThe Fight for Public 
 Education\nHosted by Kevin Cartwright\n\nadvance tickets: $12, T: 
 800-838-3006  or Marcus Books, Books Inc/Berkeley, Pegasus (3 sites), 
 Moe's, Walden Pond Bookstore, Diesel a Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloway's  \n$15 
 door, KPFA benefit   more info: kpfa.org/events    wheelchair 
 access\n\nAmerica's most eloquent and knowledgeable proponent of public 
 education, Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great 
 American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, 
 will discuss with Jitu Brown their mutual struggle for public education. 
 \n\nDiane Ravitch is a Research Professor of Education at New York 
 University and a historian of education. She is the Founder and President 
 of the Network for Public Education (NPE). Her Blog - dianeravitch.net - 
 has received more than 30 million hits.  She was appointed by the Clinton 
 administration's Secretary of Education Richard Riley in 1997 and 
 reappointed by him in 2001. From 1995 until 2005, she held the Brown Chair 
 in Education Studies at the Brookings Institution and edited Brookings 
 Papers on Education Policy. Her latest book is Reign of Error: The Hoax of 
 the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools 
 (2014).\n\nJitu Brown, the national director of the Journey for Justice 
 campaign, was part of a month-long hunger strike by parents and community 
 activists to save Dyett High school in Chicago. He is a long-time community 
 activist and has brought great energy and focus to the connection between 
 the attacks on public education and the disempowerment of African American 
 communities. \n\nKevin Cartwright has been a radio producer, media trainer 
 and music programmer for Pacifica Radio station KPFA-FM since 1994.\n\n$12 
 advance, $15 door.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/10/05/18803463.php
SUMMARY:Diane Ravitch and Jitu Brown: The Fight for Public Education
LOCATION:Oakland Technical High School\n4351 Broadway\nOakland, CA 94611
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/10/05/18803463.php
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