Category: State Takeovers
How the Charter School Industry’s Newest Scheme Could Be ‘the Death of Public Schools’
The letters started coming in October 2025. In the first wave, according to the Florida Policy...
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Ashana Bigard – Elizabeth K. Jeffers: Twenty Years After Katrina, the City’s All-Charter Schools System Is Failing Many Families
To mark the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, numerous articles...
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Voters Across the Political Spectrum Gave Public Education Important Wins in the 2024 Election
In a general election that was by-and-large disastrous for the Democratic Party, voters across the...
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What the NY Times Got Wrong About a Key Party Switch in North Carolina
A July 30, 2023, headline in the New York Times promised to give readers an “inside” story about...
Read More Did a North Carolina Democratic Lawmaker Throw the Party Under the Bus for the Charter School Industry?
So far, little has been disclosed about exactly why North Carolina state Representative Tricia...
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Jeff Bryant in The Progressive: What’s Behind the State’s Takeover of Houston Schools
On March 15, Texas officials announced plans to take over Houston’s public schools—the largest...
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Can Community Schools Rescue a ‘Troubled’ District?
“Why are we still fighting for basic needs?” asked Karen Guzman, a parent and community organizer...
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We Need a Democratic Approach to Reimagining Schools—Asking People, Not Billionaires and Ideologues, What They Want
As soon as Anna Grant’s busy workday at Forest View Elementary School in Durham, North Carolina,...
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Why Many School Districts Are Being Set Up for Fiscal Failure
Former vice president and current presidential hopeful Joe Biden recently caught a lot of flak for...
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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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