Teachers Take a Bold Stance for Public Education at the Epicenter of the Charter School Movement
When President Trump appointed Betsy DeVos to be U.S. Secretary of Education and made charter...
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Author: Jeff Bryant
Rapid Victory of West Virginia Teacher Strike Shows What Happens When Progressives Join the Fight Against School Privatization
West Virginia’s most recent statewide teacher walkout came and wentso quickly there was too little...
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Charter Schools Are Pushing Public Education to the Breaking Point
When striking Los Angeles teachers won their demand to call for a halt to charter school...
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Los Angeles Teachers Make the Case that Charter Schools Are an Existential Threat to Public Education
“Isn’t it reasonable to have some regulations on charters?” asked Ingrid King, a kindergarten and...
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How Teacher Strikes Are Exposing the Corrupt Charter Agenda
This week, Republican lawmakers held a press conference on Capitol Hill to kick off National...
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Choice Has Become an Excuse for Charter and Voucher Schools to Discriminate
When prominent advocates for “school choice,” such as U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos,...
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Urban Communities of Color Increasingly Want No Part of Charter Schools
At a recent school board meeting in New Orleans, more than 100 parents swamped the hearing room,...
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School Privatization Took a Major Beating in the Midterms
The blue wave that swept the nation in the recent midterm elections was also a broad rejection of...
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Midterm Elections Show America’s Major Shift in Attitude to Charter School Privatization
For years, the policy window for privatizing public schools has been wide open, and what was once...
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How Teachers Might End Up Beating Back the Koch Brothers’ Plan to Privatize Arizona Schools
The moment Beth Lewis realized the powerful political forces she was up against was when she was...
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Education May Propel the Blue Wave in DeVos Country
It’s increasingly clear that if the November midterm elections are to produce a “Blue Wave” for...
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