Education Establishment Opinion
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ORTEGA: Charter Schools Are Public Schools – They Have to Be Held Accountable to the Taxpayers
Every Pennsylvania student deserves a good education, and every student in Pennsylvania deserves an education that works best for them.
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COHEN: School Privatization Lobby Places Fake News on Local Stations
With Ed Newsfeed, the Betsy DeVos-funded American Federation for Children distributes syndicated content to TV stations. They run it as…
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KINGKADE, ZADROZNY and COLLINS: Critical Race Theory Battle Invades School Boards — With Help From Conservative Groups
A booby-trapped billboard. A list of demands. A conservative media frenzy.
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MYSTAL: The Miseducation of White Children
The attacks on critical race theory are just another attempt to prevent this country from reckoning with its racist past…
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PRZYBYLA: Schools Across U.S. Plagued With ‘Third World’ Issues
Clumpy lead paint and plaster curl off the walls of some inner-city Philadelphia schools. Staff members at a Florida school…
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COHEN: School Choice and Charter Proponents Target Public Education in Key States
But teachers and their allies are fighting back in Arizona, Kentucky and elsewhere.
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SINGER: Can Unions Defang Charter School Vampires?
After all, when encumbered by the need to collectively bargain with employees, can a charter still do all its usual…
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COVERT: How Teachers Fought for Their Safety in the Pandemic—and Won
As the debate over in-person schooling roiled, teachers’ unions secured significant protections—often with parents’ support.
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FARMER: Financialization Created Chicago Public Schools’ Fiscal Crisis
Chicago Public Schools has constantly found itself in fiscal crises in recent years, crises that then justify brutal austerity. But…
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SMITH: Free Black Thought: A Manifesto
To build a truly antiracist society, we need to listen to all black voices, not just those deemed "authentic."
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MECKLER and NATANSON: As Schools Expand Racial Equity Work, Conservatives See a New Threat in Critical Race Theory
The nation’s reckoning over race has reached thousands of U.S. schools, and so, too, has a conservative backlash.
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KELLY: School Choice? South Carolina Bill Would Enhance Choice for a Few, Diminish It for Most
This afternoon, a S.C. House subcommittee will meet to review H.3976. This bill would allow students living in households at…
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SCIARRA: After the COVID-19 Money Is Spent, Schools Will Still Be Underfunded
The pandemic’s impact on public education, especially in schools serving communities segregated by poverty and race, should come as no…
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KEIERLEBER: How California’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum Got Sucked Into the Culture Wars
Top researcher calls such inclusive models the ‘low-hanging fruit’ of American education reform.
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RODOV: Charter Schools Should Get Zero Federal Dollars
In hindsight, it seems that the public dollars wasted on these schools and the personal angst they caused to teachers,…
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WARNER: Parents, Stop Talking About the ‘Lost Year’
Experts say some of their worries are justified — but only up to a point.
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HALE: School Reform, Not School Choice
ClassCast Podcast Ep.063 features education historian, professor at the University of Illinois, and author Jon Hale discussing school choice, its…
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WATCH: These Schools Destroy Stereotypes Against School Choice
The public school system works well for many students, but not all of them. Still, school choice programs are the…
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GREENE: Is Your Charter School a Public School?
It seems to be one of the eternal questions (well, sort of a question) of the education debates-- aren't charter…
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JONES and GRAMER: Education Bill Undermines Idaho Constitution
Supporters of privatizing education are about to change the Idaho Constitution and 130 years of education policy without going to…
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BAUMANN: HB 563 Diverts Public School Dollars to Unaccountable Private Entities
Kentucky still has a lot of work to do to make sure all students can thrive, but taking money out…
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YAN: The Debate Over Reopening Schools Is Fierce and Divisive. Here’s Where People on Different Sides of the Issue Are Coming From
It's been one year since millions of students last stepped inside a classroom. One year since schools started shuttering to…
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FINKELSTEIN: School Districts Need to Scrutinize Dollars Spent on Private Schools
Many taxpayers are unaware of these expensive, long-term arrangements. And one can certainly argue these private schools are a key…
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BOWMAN and WEINGARTEN: America’s COVID Spring Shouldn’t Include Standardized Tests for Any Students
After the year our children have had, we must consider their well-being above all else when making decisions about schooling.
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JOHNSON: I’m a Baptist Minister, and the Educational Scholarship Program Threatens Truth and Education
As an ordained Baptist minister whose wife is a retired Florida public school teacher, I am almost genetically hardwired toward…
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