Category: Community Schools

Community Schools Are A ‘Game Changer’ For Student...

Posted by Jeff Bryant | Jul 16, 2024 | Community Schools, Teacher Uprisings | 0

How a Struggling Boston School Found Success in the Roots of its Haitian American Community

by Jeff Bryant | Dec 2, 2024 | Community Schools, Education in Elections | 0

In 2016, Boston’s Mattahunt Elementary was a school on the brink. A letter from the Massachusetts...

Chicago Teachers Want to Transform Their City into a ‘System of Care’—Will Dems Go Along?

by Jeff Bryant | Sep 25, 2024 | Charter Schools, Community Schools, Education in Elections | 0

There was an ironic moment in former President Barack Obama’s speech at the 2024 Democratic...

Community Schools Are A ‘Game Changer’ For Students In This Big-City School District

by Jeff Bryant | Jul 16, 2024 | Community Schools, Teacher Uprisings | 0

Dawn Sydnor Cole, principal at Morrill Math and Science Elementary School in Chicago, has been...

After Years of Failed Education Reforms, Chicago Embraces Community Schools

by Jeff Bryant | Jul 16, 2024 | Betsy DeVos, Charter Schools, Community Schools, Education in Elections, Teacher Uprisings | 0

“Until now, we haven’t even tried to make big-city school districts work, especially for children...

Rising Talk of School Closures Fuels Expansion of the Community Schools Movement

by Jeff Bryant | Apr 9, 2024 | Charter Schools, Community Schools | 0

Judging by a rash of news reports beginning in late 2023, communities across the country may be...

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...

Why Some Schools Are a Step Ahead in Addressing Student Mental Health Needs

by Jeff Bryant | Sep 27, 2023 | Community Schools | 0

It seems that no community may be immune to what many are calling a national mental health crisis...

Why Society Is Increasingly Turning to Community Schools to Address the Youth Mental Health Crisis

by Jeff Bryant | Sep 27, 2023 | Community Schools | 0

Kaci Rodriguez knew her son was struggling mentally. His behavior was increasingly impulsive. He...

How Community Schools Can Fix a Growing Student Absentee Rate

by Jeff Bryant | May 17, 2023 | Community Schools | 0

School absentee rates that increased dramatically during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic have...

How LA’s Teachers Are Making Good on Their Promise to Support Community Schools

by Jeff Bryant | Mar 29, 2023 | Community Schools, Teacher Uprisings | 0

“We should have been miserable,” said Emily Grijalva, recalling the first days of the 2019 strike...

An Unlikely City in the South Could Be Home to a Public Education Renaissance

by Jeff Bryant | Nov 23, 2022 | Community Schools | 0

Before it got national headlines about its severe water crisis, Jackson, Mississippi, was much...

Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods Around Them

by Jeff Bryant | Sep 6, 2022 | Community Schools | 0

When Darlene Kamine tells the story about Oyler School in Cincinnati, Ohio, she also likes to tell...