After Years of Underfunding, Now Public School Teachers Are Supposed to Save the Nation’s Economy?
“After 9/11, New York City police and firefighters were hailed as heroes,” said Mary Parr-Sanchez,...
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Education 101: Don’t Open a New Charter School in the Middle of a Pandemic
While sheltering with her family during the pandemic, dealing with the challenges of remote...
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How Betsy DeVos Is Using the Pandemic to Get What She Wants
As American deaths from COVID-19 crested 100,000, the New York Times reported U.S. Secretary of...
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The Future of K-12 Schools Isn’t Online; It’s in New Mexico
“I think we’re all going to be different after this,” Mary Parr-Sanchez told me in a phone call,...
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Sarah Lahm: Communities Forced to Fight Planned School Closures, Privatization Amid COVID-19
Since mid-March, public school students in Minnesota have had to stay home because of the COVID-19...
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Government Leaders Including Betsy DeVos Push Their Personal Agendas as Economic Tsunami Crashes into America’s Schools
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, nearly all states have ordered or recommended school buildings...
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Betsy DeVos and the Charter School Movement Use a Pandemic to Advance Their Agendas
COVID-19 has shuttered public schools across the nation, state governments are threatening to...
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While the Public Experiences a Health Calamity, the Homeschooling Movement Sees a Big Opportunity
In the early days of the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S., when the number of known cases was...
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Why the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Weaken the School Privatization Agenda
“The COVID-19 crisis reveals the true intentions of people,” Kathleen Oropeza told me during a...
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Sarah Lahm: Teachers Demonstrate How to Save America’s Public Services
In the early morning of February 26, a chill hung in the air as a line of teachers and school...
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How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way into America’s Public Schools
In the expanding effort to privatize the nation’s public education system, an ominous,...
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Has the Democratic Party Reversed its Attitude on Charters?
Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bennet wants you to know how much he cares—really...
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Jeff Bryant in The Progressive: A New Report Finds Massive Waste and Abuse in Federally Funded Charter Schools
In Iowa, between 2006 and 2014, the federal government gave the state millions of dollars in...
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The U.S. Government’s Billion-Dollar Charter School Boondoggle Is an Even Bigger Disaster Than We Knew
Earlier this year when members of Congress repeatedly confronted U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy...
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Why Striking Teachers Across America Are Fighting for Much More Than Their Paychecks
While national news outlets hail the conclusion of a historic teacher strike in Chicago, another...
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