Now that you have refused your permission, join us!

  • Are you angry about massive cuts to our public school budgets and attacks on public schools, but aren’t sure what to do?

  • Do you want ideas for how you can take action to change what is happening in this country?

  • Are you willing to talk to your neighbors and friends about their vision for kids, schools and community?

Join our New Leaders Orientation to learn about the extremist efforts to destroy public schools, discuss how we can stop them by refusing our cooperation, and find out how Free the Future leadership trainings can help you catalyze actions and strengthen your campaigns.

Ready to make a deeper commitment?

Every week we will discuss one action that you can do with friends and neighbors in your schools and community, to say NO to the cuts to public schools and YES to the caring, flourishing, engaging schools our kids deserve. Learn to recruit other families, push your elected officials to fight for public schools, use fun and humor to resist attacks on schools, protect families from government repression, and more.

We meet every Wednesday at 7pm ET / 6pm CT / 5pm MT / 4pm PT. Come every week, or only the weeks that work for you! You will leave with ideas, tools and a national community of parents, caregivers, educators and neighbors taking action together.  If we all step up our courage and our leadership, we can win the schools our kids deserve and protect our democracy.

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 Have Questions?

  • You already know how to lead! There are ways that you lead every day in your families, schools, neighborhoods, houses of worship, and at work. Free the Future will help you strengthen the skills of:

    • Building connections: How to engage the people in your school or community who will join you in taking action

    • Building community: How to gather your people to to learn together, support one another and take action 

    • Building capacity:  How to help your friends, neighbors and community members learn the skills they need for your actions to have impact

    Experienced organizers will be available to coach you through the process as well!

  • Each training prepares you with skills to take concrete actions in your community, and gives you ideas and tools for what to do. We will also help you build a local circle of 5 -25 people (or perhaps more!) who can take more impactful actions together.

  • We will start small, and build greater capacity for action and unity over time. We will set goals to get more stakeholders to sign the non-permission slip, publicize our gains, meet with local officials to get them to go on record about the harm being done to our schools, and work towards scaled mobilizations. 

  • Free the Future leadership trainings will alternate with orientation meetings for new leaders and a National Briefing that provides updates on what is happening to our schools and to our democracy, and highlights the progress we are making together.   All calls will last an hour – leaving you 2-4 hours per week to build something in your school and community.

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