Texas public schools are allowed to receive failing grades for up to 6 consecutive years before the bureaucratic intervention process takes serious steps to get that school on the right track. Currently, there are more than 500 Texas schools that are rated academically unacceptable – educating a total enrollment of 315,000 Texas students.

Too many Texas schoolchildren are trapped in failing public schools, and we cannot let this continue. Texas can turn this around with your help.

As a national organization advocating for quality education every day, Hispanic CREO is working along with Texans for Education Reform to help pass Senate Bill 2.

Please send a letter today to your Senator, asking for their support for Senate Bill 2.

Even if you don’t live in Texas, you can still write a letter of support to a senator in Texans through Texans for Education Reform portal.

If passed, Texas will begin to change the future of Texas’ public education by:

1. Eliminating the outdated cap on charter schools. Texas law currently allows for only 215 charters to be authorized across the state, and 209 have been authorized so far.

2. Putting the 100,000 children on those waiting lists into Texas public schools that are NOT failing.

3. Opening up more public education options for Texas families and place pressure on our failing schools to turn things around.

It’s time to stop talking about putting education first, and actually start doing it.

With your help, we can change the future of public education in Texas by tackling one initiative at a time. Help us get Texas children out of failing schools, and send a letter to your Senator asking that they support Senate Bill 2 and meaningful education reform!

Thank you,

Julio Fuentes
President/CEO
HCREO

You can also download and print a copy of this cartoon to pass out and share with other parents in person.

When: Tuesday, November 13 at 11 A.M.

Where:  Los Angeles Unified School District office

333 South Beaudry Avenue, Los Angeles.

Why:  LAUSD Board members will be voting on a resolution that could freeze charter school growth in Los Angeles and hurt schools already in existence.

LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer introduced a resolution on Charter Authorizing and Oversight that proposes to create a new Charter Oversight Commission, require the use of the LAUSD student system ISIS and halt the approval of new charter schools.

It is important that you attend the rally and encourage your friends, family and school community to attend.

Be sure to KEEP THE PRESSURE ON too, by calling and emailing LAUSD Board Members to vote “NO” on Steve Zimmer’s Resolution.

For more information visit Granada Hills Charter High School’s website or visit Families That Can.

Please take 30 seconds NOW to forward this Alert to at least 10 of your friends.

Every bit helps! ]]> http://www.edreform.com/2012/11/los-angeles-parents-rally-tomorrow/feed/ 0 http://www.edreform.com/2012/11/urgent-georgia-edreform-election-update/ http://www.edreform.com/2012/11/urgent-georgia-edreform-election-update/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:20:39 +0000 Michelle http://www.edreform.com/?p=18187 Dear Concerned Georgian:

The fate of many current and future charter school opportunities are at stake in Georgia come Tuesday’s election. Your local leaders have been working hard to engage voters to ensure that charter schools continue to thrive after Election Day. But there’s still so much more to do and YOU hold the key to igniting literally millions of “YES” votes for your schools, your students, your movement and your state.

HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO IN FIVE MINUTES TO REACH 5,000 PEOPLE:

• Forward this email to ALL of your lists — your parents, your teachers, your community members — EVERYONE you know. It’s your right as a professional, as a voter, and as a citizen to share the information people provide to you. We all get tons of things every day from friends and we choose to read it or choose to toss it. It’s all about choice and freedom.

• Information is power! Check out CER’s CANDIDATE METER which is ready for your use in measuring the multitude of positions and opinions offered by your candidates for local, state and even national office. Make all your VOTES count FOR EDUCATION REFORM.

• To get involved and stay informed through next week, visit https://www.facebook.com/SaveOurPublicCharterSchools and The Brighter Georgia Education Coalition.

Now open that address book and send them this link! You can make a difference.

Good luck to you!

Jeanne Allen
President

The national teachers union is spending millions to confuse Idaho voters on the three initiatives that will, if passed, make education better for all schools, all students and parents. That’s why they are scared. And every charter school in Idaho will be affected indirectly by these votes, and if these efforts all fail, the unions will be forever emboldened to challenge your freedom and flexibility. You can make a difference, however, and you hold the key to thousands of critical votes.

HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO IN FIVE MINUTES TO REACH 5,000 PEOPLE:

• Forward this email to ALL of your lists — your parents, your teachers, your community members — EVERYONE you know. It’s your right as a professional, as a voter, and as a citizen to share the information people provide to you. We all get tons of things every day from friends and we choose to read it or choose to toss it. It’s all about choice and freedom.

• Information is power! Check out CER’s CANDIDATE METER which is ready for your use in measuring the multitude of positions and opinions offered by your candidates for local, state and even national office. Make all your VOTES count FOR EDUCATION REFORM.

• To get involved and stay informed through next week, visit www.studentscomefirst.org.

Now open that address book and send them this link! You can make a difference.

Good luck to you!

Jeanne Allen
President

No doubt you’re as tired of all the ads as we are, but in this great nation, having the opportunity to vote for one’s precious ideals is such a gift that we all tend grin and bear it! Another thing we tend to grin and bear is the condition of our schools, which remain in trouble, and despite tremendous progress over time, are not delivering the kind of education our children need and deserve.

You can do something about that this Election Day.

The Center for Education Reform’s CANDIDATE METER is ready for your use in measuring the multitude of positions and opinions offered by your candidates for local, state and even national office. We know that despite our best efforts, it’s easy to end up voting for people without regard for their education reform views because we just don’t know them or they sound pretty good.

The reality is that if a candidate doesn’t have a strong point of view one way or the other about school choice, charter schools accountability and teacher quality, he or she is very unlikely to get reform minded after elected. So now’s the time to make sure you can measure your candidate’s pedigree on education reform to spread the word among your family, friends and colleagues so as to ensure exceptional results for education reform across the country.

We know the status quo will be out in droves this coming weekend to fight candidates and initiatives that are pro-edreform and has millions of dollars invested to help them do so. We know voters who typically need school choice or access to better and brighter teachers are often disenfranchised by the process and union propaganda.

And while education is up for a vote in every state through the candidates you will select, if you are in Georgia, Idaho, or in Washington state, you have major initiatives that need your attention:

• Georgia – YES vote on Georgia’s Amendment 1 ensures continued parental options through charter schools.

• Idaho – YES on all 3 education questions means reform, and the unions want you to vote no so that they have more control over your child’s education.

• Washington – YES on charter schools in will introduce this reform to parents and educators in the Evergreen State for the first time be far more well-equipped to get out the vote against charters in the past.

The time is now to help elect Education Reform next Tuesday, November 6! CER, for the past 19 years has been tracking campaigns, candidate platforms, ballot initiatives and has developed an arsenal of data and analysis on how education reform can win on Election Day. Throughout the next week, we will update our forecasts and make more information available to voters who are agitated and excited about the prospects of new reform efforts in a new year.

So please use these tools, forward this to 10 of your friends and get ready to VOTE for EDREFORM!

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Best regards,
Jeanne Allen
President