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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Author: Jeff Bryant
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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New Peer-Reviewed Study by Our Schools’ Jeff Bryant and Velislava Hillman: “Families’ Perceptions of Corporate Influence in Career and Technical Education Through Data Extraction”
Families’ perceptions of corporate influence in career and technical education through data...
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Jeff Bryant on The Progressive: ‘Community Schools Could Fix a Major Problem in Education’
Leslie Hu remembers the very day, a Thursday in March 2020, when her school, Dr. Martin Luther...
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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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Corporations Are Turning Public Schools into Their Workforce Training ‘Pipelines’
Nearly all public schools in the United States (98 percent) offer some form of career and...
Read More Jeff Bryant and Velislava Hillman in The Progressive: How Big Businesses Are Colonizing the Classroom
“It’s going to be great,” Houston entrepreneur Jim McIngvale told a reporter about the charter...
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Jeff Bryant Quoted in Virginia NPR: Expanding Charter Schools Is ‘a Red Flag to Virginians’
“Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin has repeatedly stated that he wants to open 20 charter schools in...
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Jeff Bryant on America’s Workforce Union Podcast: Ohio’s voucher program is hurting public schools, but community schools are a better idea.
The first featured guest on today’s edition of the AWF Union Podcast was Independent Media...
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How Community Schools Are Helping a Hard-Hit City Dig Out of Tough Times
Days after the GE Transportation plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, announced a round of crippling...
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Jeff Bryant on Busted Pencils-Devil Radio: The Proud Boys Are Coming for Public Schools
On the Busted Pencils radio show, Jeff Bryant reports why right-wing radical groups like the Proud...
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Sarah Lahm: Why a State Known for Charter Schools Is Now Joining a Nationwide Trend for Community Schools
Minnesota is widely known as the land of 10,000 lakes—actually, there are more than 10,000. But...
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Jeff Bryant in Have You Heard: Schooling the Workforce
In the popular education podcast Have You Heard, hosted by journalist Jennifer Berkshire and...
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