I'm an Arlington parent who wrote this email in the midst of several student tragedies engulfing Arlington Public Schools a few weeks ago. 4PE encouraged me to improve it by expanding on my thoughts and citing resources. Please feel free to use language from it in your own advocacy. -AC To: Superintendent Francisco Durán, Mary Kadera, Reid Goldstein, Cristina DiazTorres, David Priddy, Bethany Zecher Sutton Cc: "school.board", Engage Subject: SROs at APS Date: Thursday, Februa

The 2023 Virginia General Assembly is coming to an end, yet Richmond continues to foment the culture wars by trying to remove history...

The new, proposed, history and social studies Standards of Learning (SOL) are moving forward despite almost universal condemnation from...

I’m dismayed by recent news about FCPS…that delayed paper certificates are taking priority over critical needs of all of our students and...

As we close out 2002 we also reach the milestone of our 1st anniversary! 4 Public Education was launched this time last year, after a...

Do you remember learning about sex ed in school when you were a teen? I do. Not only do I remember the cheesy heavy-handed after-school specials with Tiger Beat heartthrobs, but I also remember extreme mortification when I was excused from sex education class to go to the hospital to meet my brand new baby sister. In my 13 year-old mind, my sister’s birth advertised to all of my friends and classmates that my parents were having S-E-X…the horror! A million years ago, when I t

4 Public Education strongly condemns the recent policy directive of Governor Youngkin’s Department of Education to reverse guidelines.

50 years ago, Title IX created a revolution in women's education and sports, transforming college campuses and K-12 school grounds. Today, it is impossible to count the opportunities available to women and girls who otherwise would not have seen a basketball court or attained a postgraduate degree. Nonetheless, our fight for equal rights and protections for girls and women is not finished. Inequality continues unabated in high school and college sports; however, more importa

On Friday, June 17 Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin fulfilled his campaign promise of 20 new charter schools in the form of university...

Network for Public Education's Statement on the Supreme Court's Decision in Carson v. Makin The ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in...

We are in the middle of a civil rights battle, fighting for the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in our living room...

Speech on comprehensive sex education given by Marianne Burke to the Fairfax County Public School Board, May 26, 2022. Text slightly changed to be more widely applied. Original speech is available upon request. After reviewing decades of research on the subject, adolescent psychologists have concluded that co-ed (comprehensive) sex education is beneficial to students. Nevertheless, the decision to separate students by gender in Family Life Education is often made by sch

Our hearts go out to the families who lost family and loved ones in Uvalde and the other gun shootings over the last three decades. We suffer along with them, as we feel powerless to stop school gun violence that has occurred at more than 27 schools this year. With pain and fear in our hearts, parents sent our children back to school. We don’t know when or where gun violence will strike again on school property. We just know it will happen again. What can we do to stop this?

Today we launch an initiative with purpose and care: we champion the American ideal of public schools as the cornerstone of a healthy...

Hate sells headlines, but the screaming parents in the media do not represent the majority of families involved in our public schools.