How LA’s Teachers Are Making Good on Their Promise to Support Community Schools
“We should have been miserable,” said Emily Grijalva, recalling the first days of the 2019 strike...
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Sandra Jones: Is the Right Wing ‘Whitewashing’ the History Curriculum Taught in Public Schools?
“People still want to hide the truth about Black history,” Dione Archer, a resident of Richmond,...
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School Choice Nightmare: Families Getting Government Funding to Switch From Public to Private School Put Their Rights at Risk
“I am the type of parent who always made sure my kids had the good teachers and always took the...
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Peter Greene: School Vouchers Have Been a Disaster—Now Advocates Are Trying to Rename Them
Although a sizable number of Republican candidates in the 2022 midterm elections who were counting...
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An Unlikely City in the South Could Be Home to a Public Education Renaissance
Before it got national headlines about its severe water crisis, Jackson, Mississippi, was much...
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Maurice Cunningham: The Right-Wing Money and Influence Behind Moms for Liberty
Moms for Liberty (M4L) claims the organization was started by moms. But it is hard to believe that...
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Gail Sunderman: Parents Like Their Public Schools, No Matter How Much the Charter School Movement Tells Them Not To
Who would have imagined that after the past two tumultuous years, when so much...
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Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods Around Them
When Darlene Kamine tells the story about Oyler School in Cincinnati, Ohio, she also likes to tell...
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Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
When Tiffany Allen and her husband first moved to a house in Montgomery County, Maryland, their...
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Can Community Schools Rescue a ‘Troubled’ District?
“Why are we still fighting for basic needs?” asked Karen Guzman, a parent and community organizer...
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Sarah Lahm: Why Michigan Public School Parents Might Be Too Strong of a Match for Betsy DeVos and Her Privatization Agenda
Culture war issues dressed as serious K-12 classroom concerns, such as trumped-up battles over...
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Why Did Oakland Decide to Shut Down Popular Community Schools?
The Oakland, California, school district touts itself as the nation’s first full-service community...
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Jeff Bryant on Salon: ‘The Far Right’s National Plan for Schools: Plant Charters, Defund Public Education’
“In recent years, Hillsdale College, a small private Christian school in Michigan, has...
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Anna L. Noble: How Big Tech Sees Big Profits in Social-Emotional Learning at School
In June 2021, as students and teachers were finishing up a difficult school year, Priscilla Chan,...
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Inside the Chaotic Charter Schools Run by a For-Profit Company
It didn’t take long for Tasha Stiles to realize there was something very wrong with the school...
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