Education Establishment Opinion
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BRYANT: The Charter School Movement Is Imploding. What Comes Next May Be Worse
Trump’s plan for 'school choice' will lead to the further privatization of public education.
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GABOR: Betsy DeVos’s Voucher Boondoggle
Look no further than Trump’s education budget for billions in government waste.
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NAACP: Let’s Pause the Charter School Experiment in Newark
The Newark NAACP supports Newark Superintendent Roger León who has requested closure of four low performing charter schools and a…
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RHIM: President Trump’s School Choice Proposal Leaves Students with Disabilities Behind
In his 2020 State of the Union address, President Donald J. Trump promoted the Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act…
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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: School Choice and the Fight for Public Education’s Soul
Those who believe in the promise of public education and the value of investing in it should get on the…
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WEISS: Charter, Public School Funding Is Unjust
In 1997, Gov. Tom Ridge and his cadre of anti-public education advisers created the Charter School Law, injecting a slow-acting…
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STIPANOVICH: How Tuition Vouchers for Poor Kids Became a Middle Class Entitlement
Poor students in poor schools became stalking horses for universal vouchers.
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AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: Three Years of Betsy DeVos Has Been Bad for Education
In three short years, the damage she’s done is already legendary.
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MORRISON: Homeschooling Let Billie Eilish Soar, but For Some Families It’s a Curse
But while growing numbers of parents are homeschooling their children, there is evidence that for some of them it is…
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RAVITCH: The Education Reform Movement Has Failed America
The education reform movement that started with George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law is dead. It died because…
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HOLLMAN: Protecting Religious Freedom Does Not Demand State Funding of Religion
Can the government use your tax dollars to pay for religious teachings? No. At least that used to be the…
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ROSENBAUM and DIETZ: U.S. Government Basically Declares War on Millions of School Children
The U.S. government has initiated a double-barreled attack on the health and nutrition of our school children using the same…
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BUFFALO SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER: Charter Schools Are No Educational Panacea
Unlike traditional public schools, charters do not require a publicly elected board and are often not subject to open records…
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FRANCIS: What Is the National Parents Union? Well… It’s Sure Not a Union.
For those versed in education policy, the so-called union founded by Rodrigues and Marquez, both moms, is confounding.
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KLEIN: An Under-The-Radar SCOTUS Case Could Obliterate the Line Between Church and State
A Montana education program at the center of a Supreme Court case was filled with anti-LGBTQ schools.
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SANDERS: Florida Teachers Fighting for Public Education: I Stand with You
These educators are part of a massive nationwide movement, from Maine to California, that’s fighting back against years of underfunding,…
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DEMANUELLE-HALL and DIMAGGIO: The Year in Class Struggle
Labor is going into a new decade weaker than it’s been in nearly a century. But the year was a…
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STRAUSS: The Surprising Source of Key Data in a Report Critical of U.S. Charter School Program
Ever since the second report was published, critics have been attacking it, saying that it was exaggerated and even that…
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SARFO-MENSAH: Bringing a Culturally Responsive Lens to Math Class
A middle school math project gives students a chance to apply the skills they learn in class to an issue…
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KORETZ: American Students Aren’t Getting Smarter — And Test-Based ‘Reform’ Initiatives Are to Blame
The routine debate is underway about how bad this news is, but such arguments mostly miss a core lesson: America’s…
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BURRIS: Rating the Candidates at the Public Education Forum in Pittsburgh
Carol Burris led the delegation from the Network for Public Education at the Public Education Forum in Pittsburgh. Here are…
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PIANTA: The One Education Reform That Would Really Help? Giving Public Schools More Money
It is no secret that America’s schools face great challenges, including a shortage of high-quality teachers and an ever-growing achievement…
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NETWORK FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: Still Asleep at the Wheel: How the Federal Charter Schools Program Results in a Pileup of Fraud and Waste
In this report, we document over a half-billion dollars that was wasted on defunct charter schools that received grants from…
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STAR TRIBUNE: The Promise of Pre-K Education
What’s required to offer scholarships to the 35,000 children now left on their own? Big money, but not in comparison…
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PERRY: Support for Charters in 2020 Election Comes with a Price
Warren needs to learn from black voices — but the charter school movement is not ours to defend.
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