Why do they care about schools? It’s all about money By Maisie Mcadoo New York Teacher Issue June 3, 2010 Education Reform Now, which spearheaded a $2 million media campaign to lift the charter school cap without reforms, paid for this mailer attacking the UFT. Who paid [...]
By Howard Blume | Originally Published at The Los Angeles Times. August 3, 2013 Anthony Edholm, left, and Jordan Greenwald are Teach for America instructors with the ICEF charter group in Los Angeles. “My biggest thing is I wanted to take a kid at a critical point [...]
Philly Schools Consider Suing Wall Street Banks For Fraud-Induced Losses By Daniel Denvir | Originally Published at City Paper. August 5, 2013 The School District of Philadelphia is considering filing suit against Wall Street banks, City Paper has learned, for illegally manipulating a major interest-rate index underpinning [...]
By Jessica Shiller | Learning on the Edge July 29, 2013 | Students stage a sit-in at Williams Elementary (Credit: OccupyCPS) The battles over school closings have been fierce nationwide. In Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Detroit, Baltimore, and Los Angeles, announcements of public school closings have been [...]
Photograph; Karen Lewis, center, president of the CTU is joined by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, and United States Representative Bobby Rush, right, during a demonstration and march over the a plan to close fifty-four Chicago Public Schools through Chicago's downtown Wednesday, March 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles [...]
New York Times Photograph: Amanda Lindsey, a preschool teacher at the Academy of St. Benedict the African in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, talked with Charlotte Pettigrew, 5, during breakfast there in May. By Motoko Rich |Originally published at The New York Times. June 13, 2013 CHICAGO [...]
Photograph; Mike Burley / The Topeka Capital-Journal By Roy Wenzl | Originally Published at Witchita Eagle. June 8, 2013, at 5:27 p.m. Updated Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013, at 2:53 p.m. | | The Luke Gannon v. State of Kansas Decision The Rev. Jeff Gannon is not a [...]
Dearest Melissa Harris-Perry ... It's me, Betsy, one of your many Twitter followers, a viewer of your program, and a person who was honored to hear you speak at the last Rebuild The Dream Convention. As an Educator, I am grateful for your sharing what is so [...]
Journalist and All In host, Chris Hayes, has covered what is characterized as the "closing of under-utilized public schools" since he first took to the late night air. The broadcaster observes as many others have and do; Mayor Rahm Emanuel embraces entreprenuerial education reform and the billionaire [...]
