Fosters: Save Our Schools March

Fosters reporter Danielle Curtis writes about local educators participating in the Save Our Schools March on July 30th in Washington, DC

Local educators want to take back schools: Will march on Washington July 30

By DANIELLE CURTIS
dcurtis@fosters.com
Monday, July 11, 2011

DURHAM — Kathy Collins has seen firsthand the struggles with budget cuts, standardized testing, and lack of local control schools across the country face.

For Collins, a literacy specialist who works in the Portsmouth School District in addition to traveling the nation as a literacy consultant, it was this firsthand knowledge and experience that drew her to the Save Our Schools march on Washington planned for later this month.

"I work in so many schools and the struggles and negativity are shared across schools, both rural and urban," she said.

The Save Our Schools march and rally, scheduled to take place on July 30 in Washington, D.C., aims to bring attention to and fight many of these struggles.

Organized by a group of current and former educators from across the country, the march is expected to attract tens of thousands of teachers, parents, and community members to the nation's capital to protest current educational policy.

Hoping to join that crowd are several teachers and community members from New Hampshire, like Collins, who hope to affect change in the country's educational practices. [Read More]

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