By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Campaign For America's future. December 11, 2013 “We have to fight for our children’s education.” Those words, from Philadelphia parent Kia Hinton, crystallized a national sentiment expressed during a Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education held [...]
Photograph; Mayor Rahm Emanuel convinced his allies to block a vote on sending more TIF funds back to the schools. Alex Wroblewski/Sun-Times Media Democracy is but a dream that has not come true. In 2013, we move further from freedom at an unprecedented and perilous speed. This [...]
Irene Robinson stands outside Overton Elementary School on the South Side of Chicago on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. Robinson, who attended this school as a child, is upset that the school was among 47 public schools that closed in the city in June. Her grandchildren attended the [...]
Teachers across Onondaga County wore blue today as part of a National Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education. Van Duyn Elementary students, from left to right, Harmony Allison-Lemon, a kindergartener, Edith Hill, a first grader, Elijah Wright, a second grader, and Janae Robinson, [...]
You may have heard the news; scores are not sliding, the scales are. Cheating is competing. Schools that are failing are sailing and parents? Well, they are but pawns in Superintendent John White's game. And what does Superintendent John White say? "There wasn't any intent to cover [...]
Photograph; Chris Harris captures the moment Nelson Mandela is released after serving 27 years in prison | Times/Chris Harris By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 5, 2013 Early in February 1990, my daughter, born March 11, 1989, spent an entire [...]
The State Policy Network has an annual warchest of $83m drawn from major donors like David Koch, above, and food giant Kraft. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP By Ed Pilkington in New York and Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington | Originally Published at The Guardian. Thursday 5 December 2013 13.21 [...]
By Ted Cox @tedcoxchicago | Originally Published at DNAinfo Chicago. on December 3, 2013 5:56pm Ald. John Arena says there's an organized strategy to keep his proposed referendum on an elected school board off the March primary ballot. DNAinfo/Ted Cox CITY HALL — A [...]
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 [...]
