SUGGESTIONS FOR SCHOOL BOARD ADVOCACY ON ASVAB AND OPT-OUT POLICIES By Pat Hanson with Jeanne Turner, Lynn Hamilton and Macgregor Eddy Two Monterey County school districts successfully passed policies recently, requiring that recruiter release option 8 be applied district-wide when the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test is given to students. That option protects families ...
VICTORY! By Paula Hoffman-Villanueva A truly monumental victory against militarism in our schools has been achieved! And for this victory to come from the city of San Diego makes it even more ...
Activists in Humboldt County, California, in 2007, had experimented with a different approach to regulating military recruitment: a city ordinance introduced via citizen initiative. The ordinance, ...
Activists in a number of communities across the U.S. have succeeded in gaining restrictions on recruiting at the school district level. Some school districts are governed by popularly elected ...
School districts throughout the country are revising their procedures and policies on military recruiting in response to concerns of parents, students, and civic associations such as the National ...