• 08.29.11

    Preparing For Back To School

    In the coming weeks, we will open school buildings sorely in need of repair, some lacking supplies and equipment and many in unsafe areas. Yet, we will cast a spell to ignore most of this as we watch teachers transform classrooms into oases of tactile learning centers. We will preserve the sanity of a good, well-rounded education for every child in spite of the world’s outcry for increased test scores.

  • 08.23.11

    Two AFSA Locals Part of ‘Principal Pipeline’ Initiative

    Two AFSA Locals, CSA in NYC and ASASP in Prince George’s County, MD, are in the school districts that are receiving money from The Wallace Foundation.

  • 07.11.11

    It’s The Poverty, Stupid

    The urgent call for radical changes to public education being trumpeted by business leaders is predicated on the assertion that America’s public schools are literally failing. The evidence insistently offered in support of their missionary zeal is the “fact” that U.S. students lag far behind students internationally.