A Big Grandiose Announcement! People of Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel thinks the city is "Too Broke To Keep [Chicago Public Schools] Open!" How will the tax dollars intended for Chicago Schools be used? The Mayor will build an Event Center [a Sports Stadium complete with exclusive shops [...]
Originally Published AllIn at @allinwithchrisMSNBC. All In With Chris Hayes The academic school year ended early for the 435 public school students of Buena Vista School District in Saginaw, Michigan. As the district’s slow-burning budget crisis came to a head, its three schools have been shut down [...]
Orchard Gardens, a school in Roxbury, Mass., had been plagued by bad test scores and violence -- but one principal's idea to fire the security guards and hire art teachers is helping turn it around. NBC's Katy Tur reports. By Katy Tur | Originally Published at NBC [...]
We can do it! Without a penny more being spent, we can seriously and sincerely invest in public college education. But we do not. Why is that? Consider the culture, the climate and the chance that we might embrace change and you might find some [...]
If only there were a solution “lying around” to attach to this crisis. By Kenzo Shibata | Originally Published at Jaconbin Magazine. February 22, 2013| Photographic Credit; Chicago 2012 — Greg Wass / Flickr In public policy circles, crises are called “focusing events” — bringing to light [...]
America’s children seem to be shortchanged on almost every issue we face as a society. Not only are we failing to protect our children from deranged people wielding semi-automatic guns. We’re not protecting them from poverty. The rate of child poverty keeps rising – even [...]
By Pauline Lipman, Ph.D. | Originally Published at The New York Times. September 12, 2012 9:34 AM Photographic Credit; Posters saying "Save our School" line the windows at Overton Elementary. Under CPS's closing proposal, Overton students would be sent to Mollison. Both schools are on probation. As [...]
Illustration by Andreas Samuelsson. Photograph by Thomas Hannich When old is new again and new is old the conversation must be about education. Throughout our history people have fought for the right to educate all equally and then turned the mission over to the masters, the moguls, [...]
Photograph; AP/Getty Images By Noam Chomsky | Originally Published at In These Times. April 4, 2012 One of America’s greatest achievements is being defunded and degraded by the dictates of the marketplace. Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have [...]
