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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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RITCHIE: Florida Must Stop Paying $1B a Year to ‘Educate’ Children in Fringe Religious Nonsense
Florida is using nearly $1 billion of your tax dollars to teach kids in voucher schools fake science and distorted…
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THOMPSON: ‘Janus’ and Its Supreme Court Enablers
The stacking of the U.S. Supreme Court with anti-union justices has allowed the right-to-work movement to circumvent, and undercut, pro-union…
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ORLANDO SENTINEL: Private Schools’ Curriculum Downplays Slavery, Says Humans and Dinosaurs Lived Together
Some private schools in Florida that rely on public funding teach students that dinosaurs and humans lived together, that God’s…
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MULGREW: Diversify New York City High Schools Now
If New York City is going to have the first-class public education system it deserves, then the new chancellor and…
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BARKAN: What and Who Are Fueling the Movement to Privatize Public Education
This is an important article by author Joanne Barkan about the history of the movement to privatize U.S. public schools,…
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APPEL, ROSEANN, and KRONENBERG: Districts Need Right to Say ‘No’ to Charters
Shrinking budgets and resources are one of the biggest culprits and that’s because, in large part, of the proliferation of…
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SALAM: The GOP’s Public-Education Dilemma
A conservative teacher’s surprise victory in the Kentucky legislature indicates that rural voters expect more from the party that presents…
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SANDER: Fixing Illinois’ School Funding Formula Was a Good Start, But Schools Need More
Since Illinois’ adoption of a new funding model, dollars have been flowing to schools equitably, and we have started to…
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BOSLEY and DUNCAN: To Fight School Shootings, We Call for a School Boycott after Labor Day
After the Santa Fe and Parkland school shootings, parents need to draw the line. We can make Congress pay attention…
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GIROUX: Striking Teachers Beat Back Neoliberalism’s War on Public Schools
Thousands of teachers and students are walking out of schools, marching in the streets, and raising their hands and signs…
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ASAY: Utah Unions Stand United to Protect Working Families
In April, I was elected by union delegates to serve a third term as president of AFT Utah. I am…
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SCHUMER and PELOSI: Democrats Have a Better Deal for Teachers and Our Kids, Too
Democrats would invest in teacher pay, modern classrooms, special ed and low-income schools, and pay for it all. We'd also…
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RESSEGER: Unequal Access to Rich Curriculum and Arts Enrichment across US Schools
I have never read such a pithy and accurate depiction of today’s reality across public schools in urban America as…
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WAGNER: As White Students Leave District Schools, Minorities Are Paying for Charter Schools That Don’t Serve Them
White parents are pulling their kids from Orange County Schools' more diverse public schools to pack them into homogenous charters—and…
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MAINS: Education Savings Account Vouchers Program Misses the Mark
The proposal to create a new type of school voucher program in Pennsylvania has prompted substantial debate in the legislature…
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OLEN: DeVos Knows Little about Public Education and She Doesn’t Want to Learn
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited New York City this week. And what did she learn? Nothing about public education, that’s…
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CASTRO MIKOY: Under-Resourced Kids Depend on After-School and Summer Programs
The Trump administration remains committed to completely zero out after school and summer funding in the fiscal 2019 budget. This…
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FLORIDA TEACHERS GROUP: Vote at Your Peril, Sarasota School Board Members
"This is NOT appropriate for our A-rated district, nor for anywhere in FL for that matter. Charters & vouchers FAIL…
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PIERCE: All Betsy DeVos Knows Is How to Profit from Schoolchildren
It has become clear now that, given control of the government they so conspicuously deride every time they pass a…
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GIROUX: The Slow and Fast Assault on Public Education
Since Donald Trump’s election in November 2016, there have been few occasions to feel hopeful about politics. But now we…
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Making Teachers’ Strikes Illegal Won’t Stop Them
In the five states where teachers have gone on strike this year, teachers complain about many of the same things:…
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