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 school system in the Lone Star State and the eighth largest in the nation. The takeover will put Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath in charge of Houston...
WATCH: Jeff Bryant on the Impact of Private Equity Investment in Education
To private equity investors, the "education marketplace" is one that is ripe for investment, and a new report shows that in 2021 private equity firms completed a record number of deals in the education sector, following a trend that has seen increases each year since...
Jeff Bryant in The Progressive: How Progressives Can Win the War on Public Education
Netroots Nation is arguably the most important annual event in the progressive community and a telling barometer of what is on the minds of “the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party,” as Paul Wellstone, the late U.S. Senator from Minnesota, once put it. This year’s...
New Peer-Reviewed Study by Our Schools’ Jeff Bryant and Velislava Hillman: “Families’ Perceptions of Corporate Influence in Career and Technical Education Through Data Extraction”
Families’ perceptions of corporate influence in career and technical education through data extraction Velislava Hillman & Jeff Bryant ABSTRACT This paper addresses families’ perceptions of corporate influence in career and technical education (CTE) through...
Jeff Bryant on The Progressive: ‘Community Schools Could Fix a Major Problem in Education’
Leslie Hu remembers the very day, a Thursday in March 2020, when her school, Dr. Martin Luther King Academic Middle School in San Francisco, received word from the district office that Friday would be the last day the school would be physically open until further...
Jeff Bryant on Salon: ‘The Far Right’s National Plan for Schools: Plant Charters, Defund Public Education’
"In recent years, Hillsdale College, a small private Christian school in Michigan, has quietly become a driving force in America's ongoing fights around education. A "feeder school" for the Trump administration, Hillsdale led President Trump's controversial 1776...
Jeff Bryant Quoted in Virginia NPR: Expanding Charter Schools Is ‘a Red Flag to Virginians’
"Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin has repeatedly stated that he wants to open 20 charter schools in Virginia. But the nitty-gritty details of how he plans to achieve that are uncertain ... Jeff Bryant, chief correspondent for the independent news organization Our Schools,...
Jeff Bryant on America’s Workforce Union Podcast: Ohio’s voucher program is hurting public schools, but community schools are a better idea.
The first featured guest on today’s edition of the AWF Union Podcast was Independent Media Institute contributing writer Jeff Bryant. He spoke about charter schools, accountability with school vouchers and the impact on public school funding: "Ohio public schools are...
Jeff Bryant on Busted Pencils-Devil Radio: The Proud Boys Are Coming for Public Schools
On the Busted Pencils radio show, Jeff Bryant reports why right-wing radical groups like the Proud Boys are showing up at school board meetings and how this is stoking an orchestrated war on public education—and democracy....
Jeff Bryant in Have You Heard: Schooling the Workforce
In the popular education podcast Have You Heard, hosted by journalist Jennifer Berkshire and education historian Jack Schneider, Jeff Bryant and Dr. Velislava Hillman explain their recent research project looking at the impact of corporate involvement in Career and...
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