Photograph; By Mark Makela for The New York Times | Overcrowding in Classrooms: Across the country, public schools employ about 250,000 fewer people than before the recession. | View the Slide Show By Motoko Rich Originally Published at The New York times. | December 22, 2013 COATESVILLE, [...]
Michelle Rhee, Elizabeth Warren (Credit: AP/Jeff Chiu/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)Here’s how progressives — and our kids — beat the corporate establishment A populist uprising is coming in defense of public schools. Are Democrats on the side of Wall Street or the people? By Jeff Bryant | Originally [...]
Recovery School District Superintendent Patrick Dobard talks to students at James Weldon Johnson Elementary School in New Orleans in 2012. That school is now closed. Dobard announced Thursday that the system will close its final traditional schools in June 2014, making it the first all-charter district. (Catherine [...]
Photograph; Newark Schools Superintendent Cami Anderson, right, meets with Dashonnah Gittens, left, and fellow junior Armani Stevenson at an event last fall. (Aristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger) One more community is torn asunder. The Newark New Jersey School District was not the first; nor will it be the last [...]
By Manuel Valdes, Associated Press | Originally Published at The Olympian. December 13, 2013 A King County Superior Court judge has found that part of the state’s voter-approved charter school law violates the state constitution, but proponents said the ruling will not impede school plans. The first [...]
By Valerie Strauss | Originally Published at The Washington Post. Updated: December 12 at 5:00 am Education reform policy around the country is increasingly being made in secret or without public input — and with a lot of private philanthropic money. A number of recent stories reveal [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
