Category: COVID-19 Pandemic

The Community Schools Movement Is Running Headlong Into Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s Hard-Right Agenda

by Jeff Bryant | Dec 29, 2023 | Community Schools, COVID-19 Pandemic, Education in Elections | 0

“I do what I think is best for kids,” said Lauren Leto, a career public school educator at Brandon...

Gail Sunderman: Parents Like Their Public Schools, No Matter How Much the Charter School Movement Tells Them Not To

by Jeff Bryant | Oct 10, 2022 | Betsy DeVos, Charter Schools, COVID-19 Pandemic, Education in Elections | 0

Who would have imagined that after the past two tumultuous years, when so much...

Anna L. Noble: How Big Tech Sees Big Profits in Social-Emotional Learning at School

by Jeff Bryant | Apr 7, 2022 | COVID-19 Pandemic, CTE, EdTech, Online Schooling | 0

In June 2021, as students and teachers were finishing up a difficult school year, Priscilla Chan,...

Joe Biden Has a Golden Opportunity to Strengthen Public Education

by Jeff Bryant | Jan 19, 2021 | Charter Schools, Community Schools, COVID-19 Pandemic, Education in Elections | 0

In picking Connecticut Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona to be his nominee for U.S....

Emily James: Teachers Are on a Tightrope with No Safety Net

by Jeff Bryant | Nov 18, 2020 | COVID-19 Pandemic, Online Schooling | 0

After more than a month into New York City’s experiment with reopening schools in a hybrid...

How Online Learning Companies Are Using the Pandemic to Take Over Classroom Teaching

by Jeff Bryant | Oct 12, 2020 | Betsy DeVos, COVID-19 Pandemic, Online Schooling, Teacher Uprisings | 0

Opening schools during a pandemic in an underfunded urban district like Providence, Rhode Island,...

Florina Rodov: Online Charter Schools Are Not a Solution to Education in a Pandemic

by Jeff Bryant | Sep 22, 2020 | Betsy DeVos, Charter Schools, COVID-19 Pandemic, Online Schooling | 0

“Instead of going to school every morning, what if school could come to you?” an...

Charter Schools Find Gold in Federal Government Aid to Small Businesses While Black-Owned Firms Get the Shaft

by Jeff Bryant | Sep 8, 2020 | Charter Schools, COVID-19 Pandemic | 0

The charter school industry has done much during the COVID-19 pandemic to add to systemic...

After Years of Underfunding, Now Public School Teachers Are Supposed to Save the Nation’s Economy?

by Jeff Bryant | Jul 13, 2020 | Betsy DeVos, Charter Schools, COVID-19 Pandemic, School Vouchers | 0

“After 9/11, New York City police and firefighters were hailed as heroes,” said Mary Parr-Sanchez,...

Education 101: Don’t Open a New Charter School in the Middle of a Pandemic

by Jeff Bryant | Jun 26, 2020 | Betsy DeVos, Charter Schools, COVID-19 Pandemic | 0

While sheltering with her family during the pandemic, dealing with the challenges of remote...

How Betsy DeVos Is Using the Pandemic to Get What She Wants

by Jeff Bryant | Jun 15, 2020 | Betsy DeVos, Charter Schools, COVID-19 Pandemic, School Vouchers | 0

As American deaths from COVID-19 crested 100,000, the New York Times reported U.S. Secretary of...

The Future of K-12 Schools Isn’t Online; It’s in New Mexico

by Jeff Bryant | May 19, 2020 | Betsy DeVos, Charter Schools, Community Schools, COVID-19 Pandemic, Education in Elections, Online Schooling | 0

“I think we’re all going to be different after this,” Mary Parr-Sanchez told me in a phone call,...