Petition to Protect Our Students, Our Schools and Our Communities

By signing this petition, we, in the spirit of thinking globally and acting locally, the undersigned, are committed to the importance in local school board elections and will help get pro-public education, pro-collective bargaining and pro-student candidates elected who share our commitment to protect our students, our schools and our communities.

Further, we are committed to participating in the January 19th Day of Action organized by the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS), a national movement focused on reclaiming the promise of public education as our nation’s gateway to democracy and racial and economic justice.

We, the undersigned, are in solidarity with our union family and community allies across the nation to tell everyone locally, statewide, and nationally: public education, students, educators, our schools, and our communities.

We:

• Support public education and call on the Senate to reject Betsy DeVos as U.S. Secretary of Education, who has no experience as an educator (like the current NM Secretary of Education), has a record of working to dismantle public education in Michigan and across the United States, and has spent vast amounts of her family’s fortune to promote private schools, vouchers, and private charters.

• Call on policymakers to invest in our public schools, make the billionaires and Wall Street pay their fair share, and protect Title I funds.

• Demand that our schools and campuses be sanctuary spaces from the threat of deportation, racism and bullying