Articles | Ed Politics

Things Didn’t Go Well When Betsy DeVos Was Confronted with Her Department’s Charter School Fraud

Apr 23, 2019 | 0

During a series of recent congressional hearings in Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of Education...

Apr 12, 2019 | 0

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is famous for giving a nonresponse to fairly...

Apr 9, 2019 | 0

The enduring RedForEd movement that has spurred teachers to walk out of schools, organize massive...

Mar 31, 2019 | 0

A new report issued by the Network for Public Education provides a detailed accounting of how...

Mar 27, 2019 | 0

Don’t call what Kentucky teachers just did a “wildcat” labor action, at least not when you’re...

Mar 17, 2019 | 0

When President Trump appointed Betsy DeVos to be U.S. Secretary of Education and made charter...

Mar 1, 2019 | 0

West Virginia’s most recent statewide teacher walkout came and wentso quickly there was too little...

Feb 7, 2019 | 0

When striking Los Angeles teachers won their demand to call for a halt to charter school...

Jan 25, 2019 | 0

“Isn’t it reasonable to have some regulations on charters?” asked Ingrid King, a kindergarten and...

Jan 18, 2019 | 0

This week, Republican lawmakers held a press conference on Capitol Hill to kick off National...

Dec 14, 2018 | 0

When prominent advocates for “school choice,” such as U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos,...

Dec 5, 2018 | 0

At a recent school board meeting in New Orleans, more than 100 parents swamped the hearing room,...

Nov 21, 2018 | 0

The blue wave that swept the nation in the recent midterm elections was also a broad rejection of...

Nov 6, 2018 | 0

For years, the policy window for privatizing public schools has been wide open, and what was once...

Oct 31, 2018 | 0

The moment Beth Lewis realized the powerful political forces she was up against was when she was...