Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo spoke at a rally in support of charter schools on the steps outside the State Capitol in Albany last month. | Credit Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times By Javier C. Hernández and Susanne Craig | Originally Published at The New York [...]
Is public education doomed to destruction? Has it already been done in? Everyone has an opinion. The question is will the Vergara v. California court decision permanently define what might be? Will education equity be set free? Stanford Professor Linda Darling-Hammond discusses the case and examines the [...]
Photograph Credit Chris Hondros/Getty By Conor P. Williams | Originally Published at The Daily Beast. March 31, 2014 New York schools are the most segregated in the country according to a new study, but blaming charter schools, which only serve 6% of city students, won’t fix the [...]
Study: NY Schools Most Segregated In America By Lilly Workneh | Originally Published at The Grio. March 26, 2014 at 12:30 PM Minorities are likely to become the majority population in America in less than three decades – and yet, with this soon-to-be expected reality, [...]
Photograph by Lacy Atkins By Griff519 also known as Ramon | Originally Published at Cloaking Inequality. March 24, 2014 Are some charters’ practices new forms of colonial hegemony? When examining current discipline policies and aligned behavioral norms within charter school spaces, postcolonial theory is useful because of [...]
By Jeff Bryant | Education Opportunity Network. March 19, 2014 For people who like to think of themselves as being “exceptional,” Americans can sometimes abandon the very principles their exceptionality is founded on. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the current debate of education policy. A [...]
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, [...]
Photograph; Eva Moskowitz, CEO and Founder of the Success Academy (photo courtesy of House Committee on Education and the Workforce Democrats, CC 2.0) By Zoe Carpenter | Originally Published at The Nation. March 14, 2014 On the first Tuesday in March, thousands of students, parents and teachers [...]
The war on teachers, unions, and public education, if it exists, is evidence in an interview, or more so in the message, 'trend on the tax relief our charter schools receive and we will retaliate.' Close any charter schools or do not give these institutions the option [...]
