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Key Organizations in Voucher Debate

Below are the key organizations to watch and listen to in the fight against vouchers and state-funded tax-credit programs.

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State

www.au.org/issues/religious-school-vouchers/

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Resources on Vouchers

Below are organizations and studies documenting the harmful effects of vouchers on our nation's students and public school system:

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Talking Points on Vouchers: What to Say

"To build our public education system back up to its former world-class status, we must invest dollars there, not in programs, such as vouchers, that have proven to be ineffective for thousands of children and communities across our nation."

- Tina Dove, National Opportunity to Learn Campaign Director

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School Discipline - Resources

Report: Test, Punish and Push Out: How zero-tolerance and high-stakes testing funnel youth into the school-to-prison pipeline

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School Discipline - Key Organization

Advancement Project

www.advancementproject.org

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School Discipline Talking Points

“Schools that rely on security guards and metal detectors to create safety may end up creating an environment that is so repressive that it is no longer conducive to learning.”

- Pedro Noguera, Executive Director, Metropolitan Center for Urban Education

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School-to-Prison Pipeline Toolkit

Publication Date:

Thu, 2011-12-01

Organization:

National Opportunity to Learn Campaign

Type:

Toolkit

School to prison toolkit FINAL.pdf

From our Opportunity to Learn Campaign, the School-to-Prison Pipeline Toolkit includes an overview, talking points, key data and resources – everything you'll need to advocate for a fair and substantive opportunity to learn for all children.

Today's children can't wait 80 years for progress

Posted on: Wednesday November 9th, 2011

By Michael Holzman, Senior Research Consultant, The Schott Foundation for Public Education

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows little change from the achievement gaps recorded in 2009. At this rate it will take 30 years in Grade 4 Reading and 50 years in Grade 4 Mathematics for the gap to close at that level and 80 years in Grade 8 Reading and more than 30 years in Grade 8 Mathematics.

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2020 Vision

Think and "act" locally: Pressing school boards to erase opportunity gaps

Posted on: Thursday November 3rd, 2011

By Edwin C. Darden, Director of Education Law and Policy, Appleseed

Appleseed has developed an assessment tool that helps expose inequities. Called the Resource Equity Assessment Document (READ), the tool will be distributed to community partners and school boards to spur action. When armed with data that makes the case for change, community organizations can help school boards reset the balance between impoverished and better-off students.

Why do schools in high-poverty neighborhoods have fewer textbooks, foreign language offerings, Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate courses, and smaller libraries than schools in middle-class neighborhoods? Why do wealthier kids have teachers and principals with more credentials, experience and talent? And more importantly, how do we make change happen so all students can proceed from the same starting line?

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