Category: Betsy DeVos
Worse than Betsy DeVos: The Disturbing Story of 2020 School Board Elections
When a Biden victory in the 2020 presidential election became certain, supporters of public...
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Emily James: Teachers Are on a Tightrope with No Safety Net
After more than a month into New York City’s experiment with reopening schools in a hybrid...
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How Online Learning Companies Are Using the Pandemic to Take Over Classroom Teaching
Opening schools during a pandemic in an underfunded urban district like Providence, Rhode Island,...
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Florina Rodov: Online Charter Schools Are Not a Solution to Education in a Pandemic
“Instead of going to school every morning, what if school could come to you?” an...
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Charter Schools Find Gold in Federal Government Aid to Small Businesses While Black-Owned Firms Get the Shaft
The charter school industry has done much during the COVID-19 pandemic to add to systemic...
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A Community of Color Was Failed by 30 Years of School Choice — Now Teachers Push a Positive Alternative
“It’s something students are definitely going to want to talk about when they come back to...
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After Years of Underfunding, Now Public School Teachers Are Supposed to Save the Nation’s Economy?
“After 9/11, New York City police and firefighters were hailed as heroes,” said Mary Parr-Sanchez,...
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Education 101: Don’t Open a New Charter School in the Middle of a Pandemic
While sheltering with her family during the pandemic, dealing with the challenges of remote...
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How Betsy DeVos Is Using the Pandemic to Get What She Wants
As American deaths from COVID-19 crested 100,000, the New York Times reported U.S. Secretary of...
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The Future of K-12 Schools Isn’t Online; It’s in New Mexico
“I think we’re all going to be different after this,” Mary Parr-Sanchez told me in a phone call,...
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Sarah Lahm: Communities Forced to Fight Planned School Closures, Privatization Amid COVID-19
Since mid-March, public school students in Minnesota have had to stay home because of the COVID-19...
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Government Leaders Including Betsy DeVos Push Their Personal Agendas as Economic Tsunami Crashes into America’s Schools
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, nearly all states have ordered or recommended school buildings...
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