The national fight against school privatization is focused on Chicago. September 9 is the 24th day of the #FightForDyett hunger strike. Parents and community members are resisting the national polices of school privatization being forced down our throats by the Obama administration and often black politicians across [...]
#BlackLivesMatter's national board promptly reacted to a fulsome DNC endorsement with an apparent repudiation. While rhetorical opposition to Democrats is fine, on-the-ground work against their concrete polices is a step further. Apart from the prison and police state itself, no Democratic policy affects our communities more adversely [...]
By Jan Resseger | Originally Published at janresseger. August 19, 2015< | Photographic Credit; It's time to attend to Concentrated Poverty, Democracy, and Education. The takeover of the public schools in New Orleans followed a natural catastrophe, the destruction of the city by Hurricane Katrina and the [...]
Is the state takeover in New Orleans a workable model for Georgia? By J. Celeste Lay | Originally Published at The Atlanta Journal‑Constitution April 1, 2015 | Photographic Credit; Children move from class to class Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in New Orleans' — The [...]
By Simon Brown | Originally Published at Americans United in Wall of Separation. February 3, 2015 | Photograph; Representative Annette Polly Williams, “Mother of Parental School Choice” grew disillusioned with voucher program. In 1949, five domestic house cats were introduced to tiny Marion Island, which is off [...]
Policymakers who proclaim miraculous progress in education don't usually have their facts straight. By Elaine Weiss | Originally Published at US News. December 1, 2014 8:00 a.m. EST | Photographic Credit; Back to School. Phil Roeder at Flickr It should be clear, on its face, that “miracles” [...]
Students change classes during the first day of school at Landry-Walker High School on August 12, 2013. (Photo by Kathleen Flynn, Nola.com / The Times-Picayune) Introductory Reflection by Raynard Sanders, Ed.D., Host of The New Orleans Imperative In this week's Louisiana Weekly's article [see below] Journalist Kari [...]
Photographic Credit; Chris Hondros/Getty By Sally Kohn | Originally Published at The Daily Beast. May 16, 2014 Sure, it’s mostly the courts, but as we approach the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, charter schools and testing regimes are reinforcing segregation. Sixty years ago [...]
Kendra Herber teaches at New Choices Community School, which the state is suing to close.| Mark Lyons for The New York Times By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at The Education Opportunity Network. May 7, 2014 When members of the U.S. House of Representatives consider, beginning today, [...]
