Photograph; John McDonogh High School Principal Marvin Thompson attends the first Future Is Now Schools charter board meeting since administrators learned the school would close at the end of the current academic year. (March 11, 2014.) (Danielle Dreilinger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Over the last few decades, [...]
The NYC mayor is drawing a line in the sand when it comes to funding charter schools. By Owen Davis | Originally Published at AlterNet. February 4, 2014 The image is surreal. Newly elected New York mayor Bill de Blasio, wearing a broad and slightly [...]
Photograph; Sen. Ron Rice is sponsoring a bill that would require local school boards to approve the closing of a public school. The bill was prompted by the Newark school reorganization plan. (File Photo) By Peggy McGlone/The Star-Ledger | Email the author | Follow on Twitter | [...]
Walter Dyett High School, pictured here, is being phased out by the Chicago Public Schools. Since 2001, the district has closed, phased-out or turned around about 150 schools. The vast majority of the students affected by the school closures have been poor or African American. Introductory Essay [...]
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 [...]
(Photographic Credit: Vadim Georgiev via Shutterstock/Salon) Do we develop children's minds, ensure that public education exists for all, or do we succumb to the pressure that comes from developers? Profiteers and politicians have decided, but what do the people say? "These are the questions" that will confront [...]
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 [...]
Students cross 25th Street at South Central Park Avenue as police and a Safe Passage guard keep watch. (John J. Kim, Chicago Tribune) You can lead a child to a welcoming school, but you cannot make him or her drink from waters that feel dangerous. No. A [...]
