By Andrea Gabor | Originally Published at The New York times. April 4, 2014 LAST week, the New York State Legislature struck a deal ensuring that charter schools in New York City would have access to space, either in already crowded public school buildings or in rented [...]
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 [...]
Image; A striking shift in public policy has flown largely under the radar. By Stephanie Simon | Originally Published at Politico. March 24, 2014 05:01 AM EDT Taxpayers in 14 states will bankroll nearly $1 billion this year in tuition for private schools, including hundreds of religious [...]
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 by Matthew Hinton | Kelly and Noah Fischer Originally Published at Southern Poverty Law Center. | March 12, 2014 Kelly Fischer’s hopes were quickly dashed last fall. She was attending a High School Fair in New Orleans, a chance for parents to meet representatives from the [...]
