The Network for Public Education is an advocacy group whose goal is to fight to protect, preserve and strengthen our public school system, an essential institution in a democratic society. Our mission is to protect, preserve, promote, and strengthen public schools and the education of current and future generations of students. We will accomplish this by networking groups and organizations focused on similar goals in states and districts throughout the nation, share information about what works and what doesn’t work in public education, and endorse and rate candidates for office based on our principles and goals. More specifically, we will support candidates who oppose high-stakes testing, mass school closures, the privatization of our public schools and the outsourcing of its core functions to for-profit corporations, and we will support candidates who work for evidence-based reforms that will improve our schools and the education of our nation’s children.
For biographies, go to the Network Officers page.
President: Diane Ravitch
Secretary: Robin Hiller
Treasurer: Anthony Cody
Director: Phyllis Bush
Director: Leonie Haimson
Director: Larry Lee
Director: Julian Vasquez Heilig
Director: Renee Moore
Robert Perry
Rachel Cohn
Robert Rendo (Check out Robert’s artwork at http://thetruthoneducationreform.blogspot.com)