Press Associates at People’s World reports the Nation’s two big Education Unions, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) - plus 1,000 Higher Education Institutions, have launched a fight for educational freedoms.  It’s a mass campaign to combat the Right-Wing crusade to destroy public schools and Democracy with them.  In a joint statement at the annual Network for Public Education conference that was just held in Washington, D.C., the NEA and the AFT - which together have more than four million Members - the American Association of University Professors, the network itself, and the American Association of Colleges and Universities all blasted The Right-Wing assault on Teachers, schools and students.  The coalition, assembled by network founder Diane Ravitch - a noted critic of “charter” schools - in particular, and privatization in general - will “call out laws and rhetoric in multiple states aimed at banning books and curriculums, attacking Teachers, and shaming LGBTQIA+ students, while pushing voucher and privatization schemes to undermine and gut public education.”

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