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Press Packet Fulfilling the Promise of Brown v. Board: Organizing for Educational Justice for All! May 13-17, 2014 PRESS PACKET ENCLOSED: 1. Program for May 13th rally and march 2. Press release 3. List of spokespeople 4. List of nationwide events on May 17th 5. Education Voter Pledge Card 6. Introduction from “Death by a Thousand Cuts: Voices from America’s Affected Communities of Color – Racism, School Closures, and Public School Sabotage” (Available online at: http://bit.ly/deathby1000cuts) 7. Introduction from “Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud, and Abuse” (Available online at www.populardemocracy.org) The Title VI complaints filed on May 13th will be available at 12:30 p.m. here: http://bit.ly/titleVI Further information available at: www.reclaimourschools.org Fulfilling the Promise of Brown v. Board: Organizing for Educational Justice for All th May 13 National Mobilization at the Supreme Court MC’s – Ocynthia Williams, Journey for Justice/Coalition for Educational Justice and Jessica Morillo, Alliance for Educational Justice/Urban Youth Collaborative Program 12:30 Open and Welcome- MCs 12:40 Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools Introduction and Demands Jacqueline Edwards, Journey for Justice/Parents Unified for Local School Education & Sharron Snyder, Alliance for Educational Justice/Philadelphia Student Union 12:50 United Labor Presentation Pres. Randi Weingarten, AFT Pres. Dennis Van Roekel, NEA Exec. Vice Pres. Valerie A. Long, SEIU 1:00 Remarks from Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton 1:05 Impact of Separate and Unequal Education Testimony from Youth leader Diamond McCullough, Journey for Justice/Alliance for Educational Justice Testimony from leader Deborah Jones, Journey for Justice/C-6 1:15 Remarks from Lucinda Talbert, Granddaughter of Brown v. Board Plaintiff 1:20 Release of study: “Death by A Thousand Cuts” Jitu Brown, Journey for Justice 1:25 Remarks from Judith Browne Dianis, Co-Director, Co-Director Advancement Project 1:30 Announcement of Week of Action Kia Philpot, Center for Popular Democracy 1:40 Remarks from Ramon Garibaldo, United We Dream 1:45 Close & Assemble for March to the Department of Justice FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 13, 2014 ALLIANCE TO RECLAIM OUR SCHOOLS Contact: Jay Travis, Phone: (773)301-7827 Email [email protected] Contact: JuLia Daniel, Phone (786)253-3538 Email [email protected] ALLIANCE TO RECLAIM OUR SCHOOLS CALLS FOR RACIAL JUSTICE IN EDUCATION STUDENTS, PARENTS AND EDUCATORS RALLY AND HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE TO HONOR THE 1954 BROWN V. BOARD DECISION AND RENEW THE CALL FOR EQUITABLE EDUCATION WHO: Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools WHAT: Rally to honor the landmark Brown v. Board decision and to renew the call for equitable education WHEN: Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 12:30 EST WHERE: The steps of the United States Supreme Court, Washington, D.C. Washington, DC- Students, parEnts and educators arE togethEr building a movement for justice, rallying on May 13th to reaffirm the promise of racial justice in public schools as dEclared in the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools is a national community labor alliancE that represents over 7 million parents, teachers and youth who are standing up in the face of unprecedented attacks on their public schools, jobs and civil rights. Among those speaking at the press conference will be Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, and Judith Browne Dianis, Co-Director of the Advancement Project. For thE last 20 years, a market-basEd approach to education reform has undermined the promise of equitable access to great schools for all students and pitted teachErs and parEnts against each othEr. But that tide is changing as parents, students and teachErs are coming together to reclaim the promise of public education as thE nation's gateway to a strong democracy and racial and economic justice. The raLLy kicks off a nationaL week of action organized by the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, fighting the dismantling and privatizing of public education and demanding excelLent sustainabLe schools for aLL children. Leaders and members of the American Federation of Teachers, the National Educators Association and thE Service Employees International Union will be joining the members of grassroots community organizations. They are demanding full funding and support for neighborhood-based community schools; a dE-emphasis on high-stakes standardized testing; positive school discipLine policies and an end to zero- toLErancE; quality and affordable education from early childhood through college for all, including undocumented students; and a living wage that lifts people out of poverty. The raLLy will take placE on the steps of the Supreme Court and wiLL be LEd by parEnt and student advocates. They will highlight the fact that six decades after the landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, thE nation’s public schools are stilL separate and stilL unequaL. The current, market-basEd approach to education reform has exacerbated racial and economic inequities in access to educational resources and opportunities. By focusing on the "achievement gap" the US has neglected to address the "opportunity gap" that disadvantages communities of color and low-income communities. To mark the 60th anniversary, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools is calling for policymakers to recommit to the vision of equity and opportunity embodied in that U.S. Supreme Court decision. Myron Miller, a youth leader at VAYLA New Orleans, says "I told my little sisters that I want to try to get the school rE-opened so they can go there when they're ready for high school." MilLer is attending the raLLy becausE hE beliEvEs that evEry neighborhood deserves a high quality community high school that is within reach of students and their families. The neighborhood high school that Myron graduated from in 2013 is being shut down after this semester. At the rally, Alliance member organization Journey for Justice wilL relEasE a rEport detailing the harm done to communities of color and low-income communities by corporate intervention policies such as mass school closings, charter expansion, over-testing and harsh discipline. The report caLLs for a moratorium on school closures and charter expansions and details recommendations for alternative, sustainable school transformation models. After the raLLy participants will then march to the Department of Justice to call on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to meet with parents, students and educators who arE hurt by current education reform. The groups wilL filE 3 TitLe VI civil rights complaints with thE U.S. DEpartment of Education Office of Civil Rights and with the Department of Justice detailing how students of color from Newark, NJ, Chicago, IL, and NEw OrLeans, LA, are disproportionately impacted by school closures and charter expansions. The Alliance will also ask the Attorney General to improve charter oversight due to the excessive amount of charter fraud and thE currEnt weak system of oversight that costs taxpayers millions of dollars. Irene Robinson, a grandparent of 8 children impacted by school closings and member of thE Kenwood Oakland Community Organization in Chicago says “Closing schools and displacing students is separate and unequal. Stuffing my grandbaby in a class with 54 other kindergarteners is separate and unequal. My grandchildren having to eat lunch in the gym room packed with students is separate and unequal. This is not reform, it’s repression.” Robinson is part of the Chicago civil rights complaint. AFT President Randi Weingarten says "Sixty years ago, Brown v Board created access, yet today, we still struggle with true equity. In PhiladElphia and Chicago, school closings have a disproportionate impact on students of color. In Newark, reforms being forced through have enraged the entire community and will excessively harm teachers of color. School closings, privatization, zero-toLErancE approachEs to school discipline, austerity, high-stakes testing aLL threaten to undercut communities of color. Today, change is being brought about not in a courtroom, but in our communities. There is a groundswell movement of teachers, parents, students and community members pushing for solutions that we know bring about equity – promoting early childhood education, expanding professional development opportunities, recruiting and retaining a diverse teacher corps, boosting parental involvement, shifting our discipline policies, curbing privatization and fixing, not closing, schools. Together, we are working to reclaim the promise of public education." SEIU President Mary Kay Henry says “Today we mark the anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision by continuing the fight to rEalizE its promise: expanding opportunity for students of aLL backgrounds.” NEA President Dennis Van Roekel says “Sixty years after the Brown v. Board of Education landmark decision, we still see dramatic inequities and disparities in resources, programs, and opportunities for students across America. If ‘separate is inherently unequal,’ then why have lawmakers at every level—local, state, and federaL—failed to fix these inequities? The Supreme Court has failed to recognize that disparitiEs in what America's students receive is just as much of a constitutional affront as racial segregation was and is today. We have systems that continue to perpetuate inequality based
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