Our organization is made up of K-12 educators, parents, students, university professors, and college students. We came together in 1997 because we believe North American schools are the center of society, and because our core values about schools and communities are often violated by demands made by outside bureaucracies. We are interested in organizing teachers, parents, and kids around our positive principles. Our Vision of Community Our society creates enough abundance for all people to live well. We can build democratic communities, good schools, care for one another, live productive and enjoyable lives, if we study our surroundings and act to realize our vision.
Good communities require active, conscious citizens.
Focus efforts on building community among students, teachers, parents, and administration in the neighborhood school. We cannot reform our schools if we do not also change our communities. We are democratic. We believe we have a right to expect to share in the control of the processes and products of our workplaces and our communities. We think that if we do not move to demolish these forces in our society, racism and sexism will be used to demolish us.