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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Author: Jeff Bryant
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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Jeff Bryant at Netroots Nation 2021: The Truth about the Attacks on Teaching Critical Race Theory in Public Schools
At Netroots Nation 2021, the largest annual gathering of progressive activists in the nation, Jeff...
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Jeff Bryant in The Progressive: The Proud Boys Are Coming for Public Schools
When violent insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 to attempt to overturn the...
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For-Profit Charter Schools Provide an Entryway for Private Investors to Exploit Public Education
Charter school industry lobbyists, who appear to have lost a fight in the U.S. House of...
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William Paul: Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Day ‘Is All About Education’
Symbolism is powerful. It can be misused horrifically as a tool of dominance and loathing. But...
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Sarah Lahm: How Increasingly Popular Community Schools Boost Rural America
The often hidden reality of rural schools in America is that a higher percentage of students in...
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Sarah Lahm: In Minnesota’s ‘Most Diverse City,’ Schools Are Addressing the Community’s Deep Trauma
Sizi Goyah, a high school math teacher in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, is overflowing with...
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Jeff Bryant in the Progressive: The End of School ‘Reform’
It was telling that few people noticed when Chicago’s Board of Education announced in late May...
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Industry Lobbying Firm Rushes to Defend Charter Schools That Think of Children as a Business
The top lobbying group for the charter school industry is rushing to preserve millions in funds...
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The Right Wing Is Pumping Out Critical Race Theory Attacks to Boost its Propaganda War on Public Education
“No one deserves the school I went to,” says Celia Gottlieb. Gottlieb is currently enrolled...
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Jeff Bryant in the Progressive: The Triumph of Community Schools
Show me your budget, the saying goes, and I’ll show you your priorities. If that adage is true,...
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Why Are Federal Funds Flowing to “White Flight” Privatized Charter Schools and Contributing to the Re-segregation of Education?
In June 2018, when the North Carolina state legislature enacted a law that allowed four affluent,...
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