Antioch Alumna Needs Your Help

To all of you who care about public education, I invite you to go to this website (http://www.petitiononline.com/Teachers/petition.html), read this petition and sign it. I have been involved with this group, Teachers Letters to Obama, for not quite a year now.

The group is on Facebook and social networking has created quite a buzz about the power of individuals to help effect change. This group has put together a book of letters to President Obama about what we would like to see changed in the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind/Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Since sending off the letters, we formed a smaller steering committee and had the opportunity to talk to US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. We have held several online webinars regarding the issues in today’s education environment. And now we have created this document which we are trying to get to Congress as they begin work on the reauthorization of the law this summer. This is just the sort of thing I learned to do at Antioch.

I hope all of you will sign the petition and recommend it to your friends. The direction of the current administration is not much better than the old law - and we must get their attention before we destroy public education. Please help!

Sandee Palmquist
sandee.palmquist@comcast.net
M.A. Education 2002