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Public education is essential to our democracy — but big corporations and their front group ALEC see it as just another way to make money. They’re working to ensure your tax dollars get diverted to private companies that skimp on quality, sometimes foregoing school buildings and classrooms altogether, to maximize profits. They might as well put a dollar sign on students’ foreheads.

Is that the kind of world we want?Watch the video to understand how ALEC is trying to put students up for sale.

Thanks as always for your support,

Robert Greenwald

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Apply to the 2013 President’s Honor Roll –

10/12/2012 Nativegrl77

Apply to the 2013 President’s Honor Roll

Each year, the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll recognizes higher education institutions that reflect the values of exemplary community service and achieve meaningful outcomes in their communities through service with the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.

Applications for the 2013 President’s Honor Roll is November 29, 2012 at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.

To help you through the application process, we have scheduled webinars and conference calls right up until the application due date. Plan to attend one or more of these. Check the schedule on the right.

For more detailed information about the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll and to apply, please visit www.NationalService.gov/HonorRoll.

Email your questions to HonorRoll@CampaignConsultation.com or call our support line at 202-606-3222.

If you’d like to continue to receive updates on the President’s Honor Roll, click here to subscribe.

Thank you,

The Honor Roll Team

Webinars

Participate in one of three webinars to obtain Tips for a Great Honor Roll Application. The webinars will generally have the same content. Select a date to sign up for a webinar: October 24th @ 2:00 PM EST

November 1st @ 2:00 PM EST

November 8th @ 2:00 PM EST

Q&A Conference Calls

In addition to the webinars, conference calls are planned to assist you with last minute questions. Sign up for a conference call: November 15th @ 2:00 PM EST

November 27th @ 2:00 PM EST

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You decide what matters : Vote

09/07/2012 Nativegrl77

Earth Day Network has a chance to win $10,000 or more to support our green schools and environmental education campaigns through the Chase Community Giving competition! We just need your votes on Facebook.

Click here to vote for Earth Day Network.*

If you support our work to grow the environmental movement, create healthy green schools, plant millions of trees worldwide, empower women, educate voters, protect biodiversity and more, please take a moment to vote for us. With a couple of mouse clicks, you can help ensure these vital programs have the funding they need.

You get two votes*, and they must be used on two different charities, so please consider also voting for our partner organization, Worldwatch Institute.

– The Earth Day Network Team

*Anyone with a Facebook account can vote. Voting is open September 6-19, 2012. If you need help voting, you can find instructions here. If you happen to be a Chase customer, you get two additional votes; just login to ChaseGiving.com to claim those votes. Please then vote a second time for Earth Day Network and Worldwatch Institute.

Dear Carmen,

Click here to vote for Earth Day Network.*

You get two votes*, and they must be used on two different charities, so please consider also voting for our partner organization, Worldwatch Institute.

– The Earth Day Network Team

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Commemorate Title IX’s 40th year

06/22/2012 Nativegrl77

Do you support Title IX?

Help make sure these Faces of Title IX are heard. Share today!

“Come to the blacktop at my middle school and hang out for a couple of hours. You’ll get a sense of what 12-to-14-year olds like and how they act. For them this is the center of the world.”

Middle school teacher Sarah Egan takes us on her three year journey when she agrees to coach the girls’ basketball team. Most of the players had never picked up a basketball and early on, she considered it a success if they ran in the right direction. Her team lost every game in the first two seasons.

But despite these odds, they transform into a championship team. More importantly, as they support each other as a group, their spirits soar and they gain confidence both on the court and in the classroom.

Sarah’s is just one of nine stories at the heart of NWLC’s new online portal, FACES OF TITLE IX. These stories go beyond the statistics to show how the law has helped people — whether it’s a student facing bullying in school, a young woman pressured to leave school after becoming pregnant or a race official literally standing in a young woman’s way.

As we commemorate Title IX’s 40th year, we need your help to make sure these Faces of Title IX are seen and their stories read. We believe in the power of stories to transform the public dialogue. Please take a second to share these stories with your friends, family and colleagues:

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Or, share your own Title IX story with us! And we’re not just talking about stories on athletics. Do you have a story about the science and technology fields, about school bullying and harassment, or about pregnant or parenting students? Or, can you talk about what life was like before Title IX?

These stories illustrate both the enormous progress we’ve made and the work that remains to reach the full promise of Title IX. Thank you for your help in spreading the word.

Sincerely,

Fatima Goss Graves
Vice President for Education and Employment
National Women’s Law Center

P.S. Check out the rest of Sarah’s story and NWLC’s new Title IX resources, including a new analysis that illustrates how many fewer opportunities girls have in high school sports.

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Smile – and pay up! … Minerva Novoa, ConsumersUnion

06/05/2012 Nativegrl77

Minerva Novoa,
Web team coordinator

In July the interest rate will double on widely used federal student loans, and Congress still hasn’t agreed on a way to stop it. If you’re frustrated by the ever-climbing cost of a college education, show us right now!

Send us your photo holding up a simple message of how much you are in debt for a college degree. Or how much your kids, or your grandkids, owe.

We’ll collect your photos and send a strong message to Congress that the old adage of ‘working your way through college’ is outdated when a year of college can equal a yearly salary. It’s time our leaders get real about the cost of a college education.

Getting serious about climate change
For the first time ever, the EPA is proposing limits on carbon pollution from new coal-fired power plants! Opponents are lining up to fight it, so tell the EPA you support pollution limits.

Good, Bad: Medical device bill passes
Your emails put pressure on Congress to strengthen the medical device safety bill, but we fell short of getting a big loophole closed. Find out what we won and lost.

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Tricked by your health insurance?
Health insurers can make coverage so confusing you may avoid the doctor. If you’ve felt tricked by your insurance company share your story with us so we can know more.