Stop School Closings

“Tying teacher pay to student test scores is a New Jim Crow policy in the making.” (Transcript of speech below.) On September 12, 2012, before the Berkeley Board of Education meeting, Yvette Felarca — head of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers’ Equal Opportunity Now (EON) caucus, BAMN national organizer, and teacher at Berkeley’s Martin Luther [...]

Promesa de BAMN para Ser un Líder del Nuevo, Independiente, Integrado Movimiento para Derechos Civiles/ Inmigrantes Liderado por la Juventud: Únase a BAMN en Facebook Descargar PDF   Yo prometo liderar acciones masivas y crear el nuevo, integrado, independiente Movimiento para Derechos Civiles/Inmigrantes liderado por la juventud. Yo luchare para salvar al Sueño del Dr. [...]

The power of the April 25th student walkouts from Southwestern and Western High Schools have FORCED DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts to back off on the closing of Maybury, an elementary school in Southwest Detroit that has a unique and essential bilingual educational program. Despite Roberts’ past assertions that the DPS school closings were “non-negotiable,” [...]

On April 25, at 10:55am, the brave students of Southwestern High School, ignoring the opposition and threats from their principle, teachers and parents, burst through the doors of the school, walked out and marched through southwest Detroit to neighboring Western High School to keep their school open. They were joined by almost 200 students from [...]

FIGHT TO SAVE OUR SCHOOLS AND SAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS! Espanol Join BAMN and organize youth-led direct mass action: KEEP ALL DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN! Use State Surplus Funding to Restore DPS! Restore Dr. King’s Dream for America in Detroit! Equal, Quality Education for ALL Black, Latina/o, other minority and poor White Students! Unite the Black [...]