Dear fellow MoveOn member, Elementary school students waking at 2 a.m. with nightmares about high-stakes tests. Middle schoolers stuck in crowded classrooms in underfunded schools. College grads whose reward for surviving it all is a lifetime of debt. Our broken education system is squashing passion for learning, eroding the love of teaching, and grinding up […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, January 9, 2015 In advance of his upcoming State of the Union address, President Obama is set to unveil a plan today at Pellissippi State Community College in Tennessee that would make two years of community college free for students. The proposal could benefit roughly 9 million students each year and […]
Colorado high school student Bethany Keupp, along with her fellow student-activists, teachers, parents and concerned community members staged a massive rally outside of a Jefferson County School Board meeting on Thursday, demanding that the board withdraw a proposal to censor their history curriculum. The students then delivered a MoveOn Petition with more than 40,000 signatures to school board members. The […]
MoveOn member Kyley Scarlet created a MoveOn petition requesting First Lady Michelle Obama speak at the 2014 UC Santa Barbara graduation. Vice President Biden took note, and sent this response, WATCH: Click the link to sign Kyley’s petition.h/t to UC Santa Barbara’s Vimeo page for the clip.
When the Texas Board of Education started working on its once-a-decade selection of science textbooks for Texas classrooms, an anti-science faction tried to force it to give equal weight to nonscientific beliefs like climate change denial and the idea that humans and dinosaurs coexisted. Kathy Miller and the Texas Freedom Network stepped up, creating a MoveOn Petition that asked the Board of Education to stand up for science.
In the midst of budget cuts to education in Philadelphia, schools were forced to lay off or cut hours for staff like teachers and school nurses. In October 2013, a student at one Philadelphia school suffered from an asthma attack that led to her death. If there had been a school nurse on campus that day, she might still be alive. This tragedy motivated Philadelphia parent Jesse Bacon to start a MoveOn Petition to Governor Tom Corbett, asking him to stop withholding $45 million of funding from Philadelphia schools.
MoveOn members across the country are encouraged by Senate Democrats’ plan to prevent student loan rates from doubling on July 1st.
WATCH: Found on UCLA USAC EVP’s YouTube channel. Originally submitted by Carinne L.
Prepare to see things in a way you may never have seen them before. WATCH:
She has one request for the NRA.
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