Teachers- End Gun Violence

 

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Educator, We wore orange to honor lives lost and changed because of gun violence. We’ve sent more than 45,000 messages to Congress.  Now, this Saturday, June 11, we’ll march to demand action on gun violence. In more than 300 cities and towns, educators will join students, parents, and community members to raise our voices for change.

FIND A RALLY NEAR YOU  ➤ No matter where we live, we all want our students—Black, brown, and white, Native and newcomer alike—to have a safe, welcoming environment to learn and grow. We can’t let a few politicians block meaningful solutions that we know will save lives.   By joining together this Saturday, we’ll send a message to the Senate: This time, it better be different. This time, we demand action.  Hope you can make it,  The NEA EdAction Team  P.S. If you’re able to make it, there’s also a large rally happening in DC. Check out details here.

Curious.  No March in Sacramento ?

Public Schools as Center of Rebellion

Jeff Bryant

Why Public Schools Have Become the Epicenter of Rebellion

The revolution may not be televised, but it is happening in public schools. This is evident in the growth of student and teacher actions across the country, from walkouts to strikes. This shouldn’t be surprising to anyone who’s been paying attention. Public school communities – students, teachers, parents, and citizens – have seen their institutions targeted with deeper budget cuts, greater inequities in the system, harsher penalties for “underperforming” on arbitrary standards, and deadlier gun violence. Is it any wonder that these constituents are now standing up to say they’ve had enough?

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Shooting Teachers and Students at Sandy Hook

3 YEARS, 555 KIDS DEAD, 0 CHANGE

On December 14, 2012, twenty innocent children and six heroic teachers and staff members were murdered in their classrooms at Sandy Hook Elementary School. That’s 20 children who didn’t have birthday parties this year. 20 children who didn’t get to put a tooth out for the tooth fairy. 20 children who won’t be singing in a holiday pageant this year.

The number of victims is far more than 20. I meet mamas and daddies, sisters and grandmas who have lost children and grandchildren to gun violence – communities of people whose days will forever be marked by loss. I meet them, and I promise we will not forget.

After the massacre at Sandy Hook, it finally felt like we had reached a moment that we could agree to put aside our differences and move toward better gun safety.

The bipartisan Manchin-Toomey bill proposed in the wake of Sandy Hook would have closed the background check loophole for gun shows and Internet sales. It seemed like the very least we could do, really. I had only been in office a few months, but I was optimistic that we had the votes to make it happen.

Then on April 17, 2013, the NRA shut it down. Manchin-Toomey failed.