After years of federal policy malpractice, the nation is eager for a fresh agenda for public schools. In picking Connecticut Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona to be his nominee for U.S. secretary of education, President-elect ...
In Durham, North Carolina, a fight for an elementary school became a catalyst for positive change. As soon as Anna Grant’s busy workday at Forest View Elementary School in Durham, North Carolina, ended, she would ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout, the charter industry added to systemic inequities that afflict Black communities. The charter school industry has done much during the COVID-19 pandemic to add to systemic ...
The future of school choice with COVID-19 may be playing out in suburban communities like Wake County, North Carolina, and it isn’t pretty. While sheltering with her family during the pandemic, dealing with the challenges ...
Betsy DeVos is using a crisis to privatize emergency funds for public schools while her agenda trickles down to states. As American deaths from COVID-19 crested 100,000, the New York Times reported U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy ...
A state where schools experienced deep adversities before COVID-19 can show the nation a pathway forward when schools reopen. “I think we’re all going to be different after this,” Mary Parr-Sanchez told me in a ...
The school privatization movement is not stopping as the country remains locked down. COVID-19 has shuttered public schools across the nation, state governments are threatening to slash education budgets due to the economic collapse caused by the outbreak, and ...
In the past decade, new technologies have transformed the way that people learn. The world of education changed in the past decade. New technologies transformed the way that people learn, standards for what is taught ...
Pete Buttigieg shot into the Democratic primary like a rising star, but criticism from the progressive left may be bringing him down to Earth. Pete Buttigieg, the former two-term mayor of South Bend, Indiana and ...
A national forum on education comprised of 2020 presidential candidates reveals a party moving away from charter schools and failed reforms. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bennet wants you to know how much he cares—really cares—about ...
A new report finds “the federal government has wasted up to $1 billion on charter schools that never even opened, or opened and then closed because of mismanagement and other reasons.” Earlier this year when ...
After their successful strike earlier this year, Oakland teachers are still fighting off charter schools and changing the narrative of public education. While national news outlets hail the conclusion of a historic teacher strike in Chicago, another ...
Lack of regulation in the charter school industry is turning education into the hottest get rich quick scheme about town. One of the most crucial differences between charter schools and traditional public schools is how ...
“We have experimented educationally on children who are poor, who are of color, who go to underfunded schools. We come up with ways of teaching them that are experiments and have absolutely no kind of ...
A3 and its affiliated businesses fraudulently invoiced at least $83 million from 13 charter schools and at least $8.18 million went into personal bank accounts. A Newport Beach, California firm called A3 Education is at ...
The Chicago Teachers Union leadership said that the recent surge in teachers’ strikes is driven by resistance to more than a decade of austerity and the dire consequences of the push to privatize public education. ...
The costs imposed by charter schools are not only financially burdensome to local public schools; they’re also potentially calamitous to schoolchildren and families. (By Jeff Bryant, Independent Media Institute) When striking Los Angeles teachers won their ...
A group of wealthy donors advocating for charter schools raised over $15 million for Antonio Villaraigosa’s California governorship race. The amount is the highest spending by an independent political committee for any governorship race in ...
Greasy politicians use education funds to enrich corporations — and themselves. (OtherWords, by Jim Hightower) Betsy DeVos and her husband Dick are lucky: They inherited a big chunk of the multi-billion-dollar fortune that Dick’s dad ...
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