Education Establishment Opinion
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PERRY: Defund the Private Schools
Defunding the police won’t mean much if we keep defunding schools that serve Black children and allowing a school choice…
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BLACK: Supreme Court School Voucher Ruling Threatens American Unity and Public Education
Even the mildest voucher program sends the wrong message, telling individuals that there is merit in retreating to their own…
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AFT: Espinoza Ruling Threatens Public Education and Religious Liberty
In a case with significant implications for the use of taxpayer dollars to support religious schools, the U.S. Supreme Court…
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GLSEN: Supreme Court’s Espinoza Ruling Devastating for Public Education
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states must allow public funding to support religious education, forcing taxpayers to support private…
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OLEN: Betsy DeVos Is an Abysmal Failure and Our Nation’s Schoolchildren Are Paying the Price
Despite the best efforts of teachers suddenly plunged into teaching remotely, the loss of learning has been staggering, especially for…
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HAGOPIAN: Why Seattle Educators Demand Cut to Police Budget
Seattle’s Education Association representative assembly — the union body that represents Seattle’s teachers, nurses, librarians, instructional assistants, office professionals and…
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DAY: Teachers Unions Are Demanding Police-Free Schools
A major lesson from the recent teachers’ strike wave was the necessity for unions to bargain for the common good…
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STRAUSS: There Trump Goes Again Bashing ‘Bad Government Schools’
President Trump was in Texas on Thursday, where he was part of a discussion about race and policing, and used…
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YAMASHITA: Has Trump Backer and Education Czar Betsy DeVos Gone Too Far?
As teachers and administrators struggle to reinvent how they teach students this September, US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s recent…
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NORDSTROM: Why NC Needs to Hit the Pause on School Choice Until We Meet Students’ Basic Needs
Few would dispute that North Carolina’s public schools currently find themselves in a hole. Over the past decade, Raleigh’s lawmakers…
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FEUERSTEIN and HENRY: Betsy DeVos Is Looting Public Schools
It's especially galling that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is seizing this global crisis to accelerate her privatization agenda for public…
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SMITH and CROUCH: Increasing Education Funding in DC Is Essential
Nearly half of all D.C. public school students are identified as being at-risk of falling behind or falling further behind,…
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Budget Cuts for Education Are Outrageous
New York spends almost twice as much per student. California has chronically underspent on schools for years. Teachers are disgracefully…
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BARHTOLET, COLEMAN, DWYER, GAITHER and VANDERVORT: No Need for Bullying in the Debate on Homeschooling
As COVID-19 continues to destroy lives and the economy, forcing millions of American parents to begin teaching their children at…
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JONES: Why Your Child’s Best Bet Is a Neighborhood Public School
Look past test scores and consider how a local school can mean a happier and healthier childhood.
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SARGRAD: Betsy DeVos’s Ideologically-Driven Coronavirus Response Will Hurt Public School Students
In March, Congress passed the CARES Act to provide relief and recovery to individuals, the economy, and states and localities…
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ABRAMS: A Privatization Fever Dream for Post-Crisis Public Education
Millions of students are now learning from home, and pro-charter, anti-teacher forces are trying to seize the moment.
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HAWKS: School Voucher Proponents Are Using the COVID-19 Crsis to Push for Taxpayer Money for Religious Education
In the midst of this health and economic crisis, the federal government is spending unprecedented amounts of tax dollars trying…
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SPEARS: Charter Schools Aren’t the Cure for COVID-19
Budget cuts on the horizon because of the economic damage caused by weeks of stay-at-home orders? Sounds like your districts…
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KING and WEINGARTEN: What Comes Next for Public Schooling
We’ve seen firsthand that the health crisis caused by COVID-19 is exacerbating existing inequities in student access and learning —…
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BRYANT: How Betsy DeVos and the Charter School Movement Are Exploiting the Pandemic to Advance Their Agendas
Charter operators rolled out new marketing campaigns to lure families to enroll in their schools. And in national and local…
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MARTIN: The Lessons We Should Really Be Teaching Kids in the Pandemic
Give up the rigorous homeschooling. There has never been a better time for simple lessons about inequity.
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O’DONNEL: The Risks of Homeschooling
A rapidly increasing number of American families are opting out of sending their children to school, choosing instead to educate…
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LAHM: Public Schools Need a Bigger Bailout
The money is intended to help state and local education agencies cope with the sudden changes wrought by the pandemic.…
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PHILLY TEACHER: School District Was Right Not to Rush Remote Learning amid Coronavirus
What should schools look like in the midst of a pandemic? This is a time to rethink everything, not just…
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