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New Orleans Struggles To Provide Adequate Education For Special-Needs Students

Photograph; Kelly Fischer says she visited three New Orleans charter schools, and all told her that they couldn't provide services to her disabled son, Noah. Rush Jagoe for The Wall Street Journal By Kari Harden
 | Originally Published at Louisana Weekly. December 2, 2013 When Kelly Fisher [...]

New Orleans Struggles To Provide Adequate Education For Special-Needs Students2016-11-29T17:38:29-05:00

Closing a Fear Gap So Children Can Achieve

Photograph; Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times Montserrat Garibay, a teacher in Austin, Tex., is focusing on helping families navigate a complex immigration bureaucracy. By Michael Brick | Originally Published at The New York Times. December 1, 2013 AUSTIN, Tex. — The meeting began, as so [...]

Closing a Fear Gap So Children Can Achieve2016-11-29T17:38:29-05:00

What The Swift Response To Texas’ ‘Catch An Illegal Immigrant’ Game Tells Us About The Reform Movement

By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee |Originally Published at ThinkProgress. November 21, 2013 On Wednesday, actress America Ferrera led a solidarity march with hundreds of pro-immigration activist groups at the University of Texas at Austin to protest against a scheduled game called “Catch an illegal immigrant” which prompted heavy [...]

What The Swift Response To Texas’ ‘Catch An Illegal Immigrant’ Game Tells Us About The Reform Movement2016-11-29T17:38:30-05:00

Nation Marks a Record: Number of Homeless Students Surges To 1.17 Million

By Félix Pérez and Dan Davis/image by Dorothea Lange | Originally Published at Education votes. November 20, 2013 As cold winter weather takes hold for the next four months in many parts of the country, a record number of students face a stress-filled future as they and [...]

Nation Marks a Record: Number of Homeless Students Surges To 1.17 Million2016-11-29T17:38:30-05:00

Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person…

By Gina Crosley-Corcoran, CD(DONA), MPH(c) | Originally Published at The Feminist Breeder. November 20, 2013 | Photograph; ("This was a much nicer camper setup than the one we had.") Years ago, some feminist on the internet told me I was "Privileged." THE FUCK!?!?" I said. I came [...]

Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person…2017-08-30T15:06:31-04:00

Secretary Duncan and the Politics of White Outrage

By Paul L. Thomas | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical November 17, 2013 Social media and even mainstream media appear poised to leap on Secretary Arne Duncan with both feet due to his swipe at white suburban moms. The nearly universal sweeping outrage—some with a level [...]

Secretary Duncan and the Politics of White Outrage2016-11-29T17:38:31-05:00

Poverty Is America’s #1 Education Problem

Photograph Credit: Altanaka via Shutterstock.com By David Sirota | Originally Published at AlterNet. November 11, 2013 Google the phrase "education crisis" and you'll be hit with a glut of articles, blog posts and think tank reports claiming the entire American school system is facing an emergency. Much [...]

Poverty Is America’s #1 Education Problem2016-11-29T17:38:31-05:00

First-of-Its Kind Resolution; Virtual Charter School Civil Rights Investigation

U.S. Education Department Announces First-of-Its Kind Resolution of Virtual Charter School Civil Rights Investigation Originally Published at United States Department of Education. November 6, 2013 Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov The U.S. Department of Education announced today that its Office for Civil Rights has entered into [...]

First-of-Its Kind Resolution; Virtual Charter School Civil Rights Investigation2016-11-29T17:38:32-05:00

CPS Students Protest ‘The Death Of Public Education’

CPS Students Protest 'The Death Of Public Education' Photo credit: Justin Carlson By Aaron Cynic | Originally Published at Chicagoist. November 4, 2013 A small group of Chicago Public Schools students marched from the Board of Education to City Hall on Friday to protest what they say [...]

CPS Students Protest ‘The Death Of Public Education’2013-11-10T00:23:12-05:00
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