Organizations - Advocacy Organizations

If you decide to join this group, please promise to do two quick things so that your membership can be as meaningful as possible:
1.) Visit http://www.OurEd.org/forms/petition.php to SIGN OUR PETITION to make high quality public education the right of every American child.
2.) Please INVITE all of your friends to join the group because getting your friends to visit this page will increase their awareness about this important cause.

Why do you need to do BOTH of the above two things? Because we need your help to get the word out there about this important, ground-breaking national student campaign to improve our schools. ONCE THE PETITION REACHES ONE MILLION SIGNATURES, we will deliver it to the footsteps of Capitol Hill to make a ground-breaking and powerful statement from OUR GENERATION to our nation’s leaders: it's time to make our schools and our future a national priority!

And if you want to earn EXTRA CREDIT, invite Our Education to be your friend so you can track our progress through your news feed :)

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Did you go to a public elementary, middle, or high school that had problems? Overcrowded classrooms, ancient textbooks, broken-down facilities (toilets anybody?), underfunded arts & music, adults and students who just didn’t care... any of this sound familiar?

If so, you are not alone. A 2000 government report found nearly 20,000 schools (which more than 11 million students attended) to have facilities in “inadequate condition"?, and stories of school budget cuts and ineffective policies are all too common. The result? A nation that can’t read well: only one-third of our students can read at grade level proficiency. A nation that is falling behind our international counterparts: US 10th graders finished 24th our of 29 nations in math and problem solving in 2003. And a nation with drastic inequality of educational opportunity: a child who goes to public school in the poorest school district in the US will have $200,000 less spent on her k-12 education than a child who goes to the wealthiest school district in the US.

The question is this: Can WE, as students, do anything to change this? And if so, what?

The answer is yes, and the way is simple: by joining together and making our voices heard, in massive numbers in a national student movement to secure the resources and policies that our children and schools need to succeed. Do you want to be a part of this movement? All you have to do is SIGN Our Education’s petition for change at http://www.OurEd.org/forms/petition.php, and tell your friends about it too!