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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTell teachers' retirement fund to DIVEST from standardized testing companies
If you aren't a teacher, but know someone who is, please forward this to them.
As the teachers rebellion against standardized testing grows, it's time to flex our real muscle: tell the teachers' retirement system to take our money OUT of standardized testing companies.
The retirement fund just recently set a precedent by divesting from gun companies, but corporate backed education reform is threatening the very existence of public education by buying politicians and policies that benefit Wall Street at the expense of our kids.
We need to make sure they aren't using our money to kill our jobs and our schools. I'm providing contact information for California, but if you post other states in the comments, I'll be glad to add that to the post itself in updates.
In California, you can contact CALSTRS, our retirement system at http://www.calstrs.com/contact-us
800-228-5453 916-414-5040 (Fax)
P. O. Box 15275
Sacramento, CA 95851-0275
Feel free to use or modify this brief message:
You can also tell your union to demand that CalSTRS divest from corporate education reform companies, starting with testing companies. Just change the message slightly:
In the AFT, you can contact:
If you are in CFT but not a K-12 teacher, contact:
In the CTA:
Check back later for a proposal on what we could do WITHOUT testing companies that would also save states a lot of money.
http://equalpayforequalwork.blogspot.com/2013/02/tell-teachers-retirement-fund-to-divest.html
The retirement fund just recently set a precedent by divesting from gun companies, but corporate backed education reform is threatening the very existence of public education by buying politicians and policies that benefit Wall Street at the expense of our kids.
We need to make sure they aren't using our money to kill our jobs and our schools. I'm providing contact information for California, but if you post other states in the comments, I'll be glad to add that to the post itself in updates.
In California, you can contact CALSTRS, our retirement system at http://www.calstrs.com/contact-us
800-228-5453 916-414-5040 (Fax)
P. O. Box 15275
Sacramento, CA 95851-0275
Feel free to use or modify this brief message:
As a member of CalSTRS, I ask that since you have divested from companies whose guns kill students and teachers, you also divest from the corporations pushing education "reform" that are killing public education so they can cannibalize the corpse.
Start with those pushing endless repetitive high stakes testing, like Pearson, ETS, and McGraw Hill.
As an educator, I do not want to invest in businesses that corrupt our public education policy for the financial gain of a few.
I look forward to hearing your plan of action on this.
You can also tell your union to demand that CalSTRS divest from corporate education reform companies, starting with testing companies. Just change the message slightly:
As a member of CFT (or CTA) I ask that since CalSTRS has divested from companies whose guns kill students and teachers, I ask that you direct CalSTRS to also divest from the corporations pushing education "reform" that are killing public education so they can cannibalize the corpse.
Start with those pushing endless repetitive high stakes testing, like Pearson, ETS, and McGraw Hill.
As an educator, I do not want to invest in businesses that corrupt our public education policy for the financial gain of a few.
I look forward to hearing your plan of action on this.
In the AFT, you can contact:
Gary Ravani
K-12 Council President
cfteck12@aol.com
Administrative Office
California Federation of Teachers
2550 North Hollywood Way, Suite 400
Burbank, CA 91505
818-843-8226, Fax 818-843-4662
If you are in CFT but not a K-12 teacher, contact:
Joshua Pechthalt, President
jpechthalt@cft.org
In the CTA:
President Dean Vogel
E-mail: dvogel@cta.org
P.O. Box 921
1705 Murchison Drive
Burlingame, CA 94011-0921
Phone: (650) 552-5307
FAX: (650) 552-5007
Check back later for a proposal on what we could do WITHOUT testing companies that would also save states a lot of money.
http://equalpayforequalwork.blogspot.com/2013/02/tell-teachers-retirement-fund-to-divest.html
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Tell teachers' retirement fund to DIVEST from standardized testing companies (Original Post)
yurbud
Feb 2013
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yurbud
(39,405 posts)1. former Ass't Ed Sec Diane Ravitch posted this to her blog LINK