AB1403 Threatens Our Schools

The Fresno County Peace and Freedom Party declares its opposition to Assembly Bill 1403 and condemns this shameful attempt to wrest control of our schools from local school boards.

We stand firmly opposed to attempts by the authors of this bill - including Juan Arambula and Mike Villines - to weaken our public education system through the institution of an un-democratic form of governance.

From the Peace and Freedom Party Platform:

Education is critical to individual survival and civilized human values, but U.S. capitalism is dismantling public education. Inadequate and unequal funding of schools perpetuates racism, crime and inequality. We demand:

• Integrated, democratically-run schools with up-to-date plant and equipment and smaller classes.
• Teach the history of workers' struggles and labor's creation of society's wealth and progress.
• Multi-lingual and multi-cultural education at all levels.
• A federal law requiring and funding equal average per-pupil expenditures by every public school district, with extra funds for students with special needs such as disability or economic deprivation.
• Tuition-free higher education available to all.
• Restore cutbacks in public education and public library services.
• No school voucher schemes.

For more information, contact the Fresno Peace and Freedom Party at fresno@peaceandfreedom-sjv.org