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Help out the Eastside Memorial HS Panther Band -- the little band with a lot of heart.

Click here to support Send the EPB to San Antonio! by Alan Guckian The Eastside Panther Band is the biggest little band in all of Texas! We are the pep band from Eastside Memorial High School in Austin, Texas, and we strive to be the most entertaining high school band you'll ever see! Whether we're playing music from Frozen or jamming to the latest hit from D...

Education Austin speaks on the KEYE We Are Austin morning show!

EDUCATION AUSTIN - keyetv.com Austin News, Weather, Traffic KEYE-TV Austin - Lifestyle - We Are... WITH THE START OF THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR, ONE GROUP IS REALLY BUSY. MONTSERRAT GARIBAY AND TRASEL

"Many black youth have had their caps and gowns snatched from them and replaced with orange jumpsuits, as students are funneled into what is commonly called the “school-to-prison-pipeline”—a series of interlocking policies such as zero tolerance discipline and high suspension rates, overbearing police presence in schools, and high-stakes exit exams required for graduation. But increasingly it appears police are intent on constructing what I guess we now must term the “school-to-grave-pipeline”— a series of interlocking policies such as giving police weapons designed for war zones, the disproportionate policing of areas frequented by black youth, and incentivizing police to shoot black people by not arresting them and giving them paid leave when they do. The school-to-grave-pipeline is not only a problem in Ferguson. Nationally, a study revealed that a black person is killed by police somewhere in the United States every 36 hours."

“This is a test”: Educating to End the School-to-Grave-Pipeline in Ferguson and Beyond “We were at graduation, me and him, and we were talking. He said he wasn’t going to end up like some people on the streets. He was going to get an education.” --Hershel Johnson, a friend Michael Br...

Hey folks - just got an email from Young Activists United in STL who are asking for solidarity events for Michael Brown this Saturday at 1 PM. I've been really struggling about how to talk about this with students, how to talk about this with colleagues and administrators, what kinds of activities would be appropriate, how as a teacher of social justice I can educate my students about racism, and the multiple cases of murders of black people by police. Would anyone be interested in meeting this Saturday at 1 PM to have a teach-in?

A great interview with an amazing parent advocate about the takeover of public schools in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Colonialism, Not Reform: New Orleans Schools Since Katrina • An Interview with Karran Harper Royal By next fall, New Orleans will have only five public schools—those operated by the Orleans Parish School Board. Everything else will be charters. The post-Katrina path to almost 100 percent charter education began with the post-storm shutdown of the city’s struggling public schools and the firing (r…