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In D.C., Save Our Schools eyes education policy

A first grade classroom at the Branch Brook

Photo credit: Newsday / John Paraskevas | A first grade classroom at the Branch Brook Elementary School in Smithtown. (January 4, 2011)

Teachers, students, parents and community activists from across the United States will kick off a three-day conference Friday in Washington, D.C., to unite against policies they say are corrosive to the nation's education system.

Save Our Schools, a grassroots group that held an 8,000-person march in Washington last summer, is hosting the event. Education historian and analyst Diane Ravitch,...

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