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Betsy DeVos and the Charter School Movement Use a Pandemic to Advance Their Agendas

Apr 27, 2020 | 0

COVID-19 has shuttered public schools across the nation, state governments are threatening to...

Apr 7, 2020 | 0

In the early days of the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S., when the number of known cases was...

Mar 23, 2020 | 0

“The COVID-19 crisis reveals the true intentions of people,” Kathleen Oropeza told me during a...

Mar 9, 2020 | 0

In the early morning of February 26, a chill hung in the air as a line of teachers and school...

Feb 13, 2020 | 0

In the expanding effort to privatize the nation’s public education system, an ominous,...

Jan 5, 2020 | 0

Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bennet wants you to know how much he cares—really...

Dec 22, 2019 | 0

In Iowa, between 2006 and 2014, the federal government gave the state millions of dollars in...

Dec 12, 2019 | 0

Earlier this year when members of Congress repeatedly confronted U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy...

Nov 18, 2019 | 0

While national news outlets hail the conclusion of a historic teacher strike in Chicago, another...

Oct 23, 2019 | 0

After Mayor Lori Lightfoot rejected the demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, 25,000 teachers and...

Oct 23, 2019 | 0

It’s rare when goings-on in Kansas City schools make national headlines, but in 2011 the New York...

Sep 20, 2019 | 0

In July 2013, the education world was rocked when a breaking story by Chicago independent...

Sep 9, 2019 | 0

Charter schools, once the darling of politicians on the right and left, have become a hot potato...

Aug 27, 2019 | 0

Flint, Michigan, became a national poster child for incompetence and corruption when a small group...

Aug 2, 2019 | 0

Puerto Rico’s teachers fought off charter school corruption and helped oust a governor