Last Saturday, education activists met in the Martindale-Brightwood community for Indy's first Active in Urban Education Conference. Organizing groups Parent Power, Education Community Action Team and the Black & Latino Policy Institute were joined by professors and students from Indiana University, IUPUI and Ball State University; Indianapolis public school students and parents; and other community groups. After workshops and dialogues about special education, high-stakes standardized testing and the need for teachers of color, keynote speaker Julie Woestehoff, the Chicago co-founder of Parents Across America, challenged the group to act. Post Conference discussions focused on becoming informed on the the privatization of public schools and specifically major funders of charter schools and other corporate education reforms.