What is the Social Network
for the Public Education in America?
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Nowadays, the public education faces new challenges that are pronounced in similar form in different countries. In the western hemisphere, the process to construct the Area of Free Commerce of Americas (ALCA) includes initiatives that are directly tied with the education. The governments of the Americas are negotiating the ALCA through a series of meetings whose processes are included under the name of the Summit of the Americas.
The Network SEPA is a continental alliance that it has the objective to connect organizations of the civil society of the continent who share the preoccupation to protect and to improve the public education; like essential human right for the democratic development. The Network along with works other groups of the civil society that worry about the impact of the process of the ALCA. Between these organizations they are the International of Education (IE), the Confederation of American Educators (CAE), the Continental Social Alliance, the Caribbean Organization and Latin American of Estudiantes (OCLAE) and the Continental Secretariat of Education.
The Network coordinates the process IDEA that promotes investigations, conferences and mobilizations to defend and to improve the public and democratic education in the continent. At the moment near 100 organizations of educators, students, workers of support, parents of family, communitarian women, natives and of 24 American countries participate in the Network SEPA.
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What makes the Social Network
for the Public Education in America?
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The Network SEPA makes investigations, it elaborates communications networks and publications, and organizes conferences to defend and to improve the public education. The objective of our activities is to promote the understanding of the impact of the neoliberal policies to the education in the Americas and to propose alternative routes that develop a public, inclusive and democratic education.
The Network also serves to mobilize solidarity for educators, students and other that undergo repression in their countries to make activities in support to a public and democratic education.
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