Why We Are Red for Ed

Why We Are Red for Ed

It’s about protecting students and public schools

By Mary Ellen Flannery and Amanda Litvinov

This is a moment: More than 75,000 Arizona educators turning the streets of Phoenix red with their crimson shirts this spring.

This is also a moment: Arizona educators delivering more than 270,000 signatures to state officials in July, demanding a say in whether to invest $700 million more in Arizona’s starving public schools.

These moments, joined with others in West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Colorado, and elsewhere, aren’t isolated. Together, they are shaping a national movement that will deliver pro-public education voters and candidates to the polls this fall and, in the long term, protect the nation’s public schools and transform our unions.

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