Education Establishment Opinion
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Education Establishment Opinion
SAFIER: Right-Wing Money Is Greasing the Anti-Teachers Union Skids
Teachers, here's a pop quiz. How will you receive information trying to convince you to drop ties with the teachers…
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ULTICAN: Efforts to Privatize Schools in the San Joaquin Valley Are Accelerating
Five disparate yet mutually reinforcing groups are leading this destroy public education (DPE) movement. For school year 2017-2018, taxpayers sent…
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KANSAS CITY STAR: Want Better Schools in Missouri? Hire Quality Teachers, and Pay Them Well
One study shows Missouri’s teachers earned an average of $48,618 in 2017. That ranks Missouri 41st in the nation, according…
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BRYANT: Kavanaugh Would Advance DeVos’s Religious Agenda for Schools
As the son of a public-school teacher and a volunteer tutor of students in Washington, D.C., Kavanaugh’s public persona may…
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HOPGOOD and GREIG: Michigan Teachers Need Incentives, Support
Republicans have continued their quest to systematically dismantle public education and the teaching profession for the past seven years. They…
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DeLAURO: After Janus, We Are All Red State Teachers
Like many, I applauded teachers in red states who protested against unfair, unlivable wages. Republicans eviscerated their freedom to negotiate…
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TAMPIO: Why Trump’s Proposal to Merge the Departments of Labor and Education Should Fail
As a political scientist who researches education policy, I see several major problems with the planned merger.
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BERKSHIRE: A New Public Education Movement Is Emerging in Wisconsin
There is another, more hopeful story to be told about Wisconsin, seven years after Walker officially kicked off his war…
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WALKER: ‘Refuse to Be Silent’ NEA President Tells Representative Assembly
On the first day of the 2018 NEA Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly in Minneapolis, NEA President Lily Eskelsen García…
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THE TIMES-PICAYUNE: Without Pre-K, Louisiana Children Start Off at a Disadvantage
In measurement after measurement, we don't do right by our youngest residents.
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PIZZIGATI: Why ‘Janus’ Figures to Juice Income Inequality in America
The impact from this decision? That will surprise no one who pays attention to how modern economies work: The Supreme…
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TAYLOR: A Future Without Unions Is a Terrifying Dystopia
Unions are in decline and workers are in as much trouble as they have been since the 1920s. Inequality is…
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: The Supreme Court Weakens Unions with a Bogus ‘Free Speech’ Ruling
In ruling that public employees have a constitutional right not to pay fees to unions that represent their interests at…
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SPROSS: The Assassination of the American Union
It's no secret that conservatives have been out to kill public unions for years. While union membership rates overall have…
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CASTILLO: A Dagger in the Heart of Workers and Our Democracy
Make no mistake, this is the oligarchy at work to undermine the common good in the name of profit and…
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AFT TEACHERS UNION: After Janus, We’re in It to Win It
“This is a dark day in U.S. jurisprudence, a day when the thirst for power trampled the needs of communities…
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UNION LEADERS: Supreme Court Sides with Corporate Billionaires Rigging Economy against Workers
It is shameful that the billionaire CEOs and corporate special interests behind this case have succeeded in manipulating the highest…
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CLAWSON and COX: Deluxe Charter Schools Serve Up Opportunities For Taxpayer-Funded White Flight
Charter schools are often billed as benefiting disadvantaged urban kids—but in lots of places around the country, charters are segregating…
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RAVITCH: Charter Schools Damage Public Education
Charters are publicly funded but privately managed. They call themselves public schools, but a federal court ruling in 2010 declared…
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LAREAU, WEININGER, and COX: How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools
Motivated by a fierce desire to protect their children and themselves from difficulty, and armed with a robust sense of…
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STONE and WEINGARTEN: As Unions Await a Key SCOTUS Decision, a Simple Plea: ‘Educators Want Their Voices Heard’
Across the country, frustrated and fed-up teachers have staged school walkouts to demand fair pay and adequate resources for public…
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SINGER: Why Didn’t Chalkbeat Cover Student Unrest at Success Academy Charter High School?
Since January 2018, Chalkbeat New York has posted eight articles on New York’s Success Academy Charter School Network. The most…
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CHANG: The Fraught Racial Politics of Entrance Exams for Elite High Schools
New York’s proposal to end the entrance exam for its elite schools has sparked a backlash among Asians — and…
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GREENE: Would a Free Market School System Leave Education Deserts?
This week's hearing by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce tipped its hand with its title-- "The Power…
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KANSAS CITY STAR: Kansas Supreme Court Could Shut Down Schools
Should Kansans be worried? A little. Courts are always unpredictable, and there's a slim chance the justices could order the…
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