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...
Jeff Bryant at Netroots Nation 2021: The Truth about the Attacks on Teaching Critical Race Theory in Public Schools
At Netroots Nation 2021, the largest annual gathering of progressive activists in the nation, Jeff Bryant led a panel reveling the truth behind the radical right-wing's attack on public schools that are teaching about the history of race and racism in America....
Jeff Bryant in The Progressive: The Proud Boys Are Coming for Public Schools
When violent insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 to attempt to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, some of the rioters were members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group prone to street brawling and pro-Western, anti-Muslim, and...
Jeff Bryant in the Progressive: The End of School ‘Reform’
It was telling that few people noticed when Chicago’s Board of Education announced in late May that it was closing down its school turnaround program and folding the thirty-one campuses operated by a private management company back into the district. The turnaround...
Jeff Bryant in the Progressive: The Triumph of Community Schools
Show me your budget, the saying goes, and I’ll show you your priorities. If that adage is true, then President Joe Biden’s first budget request for the U.S. Department of Education signals a significant departure from the education policy priorities of previous...
Jeff Bryant on America’s Workforce Radio: “Charter schools are often nonprofit in name only.”
Charter school management companies can make huge profits off operating nonprofit charter schools. Here's how they do it. https://awfradio.com/how-charter-schools-profit-off-the-backs-of-taxpayers/
Jeff Bryant in German News Weekly Die Zeit: The fixation on testing is deeply anchored in education officials in Washington DC
In an interview with Die Zeit's United States correspondent Heike Buchter, Jeff Bryant explains what's behind the decision by the Biden administration to enforce the federal mandate for student academic testing in a pandemic even before incoming education secretary...
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