By Adam Bessie and Dan Carino | Graphic Journalism | Originally Published at TruthOut. August 24, 2014 00:00 Truthout readers like you made this story possible. Can you help sustain TruthOut work with a tax-deductible donation? For a more immersive experience, readers will find documentation and links [...]
Private vouchers purposely divert funding away from our already underfunded public schools, creating a parallel education system without uniform academic standards, accountability or teaching qualifications. Public tax dollars should stay with public schools. Gov. Rick Scott’s allies in the Florida Legislature are [...]
By YES! Editors | Originally Published at YES! Magazine February 21, 2014 Where’s the big money in privatization? Take it from the teachers. This article is from Education Uprising, the Spring 2014 issue of YES! Magazine.
RSVP HERE CTU members are working to build our political strength to lead our schools and city in a new direction. Next Tuesday, Oct. 15, thousands of community activists from organizations across the city will define a vision of “the city that our people deserve.” CTU stands [...]
Peer Reviewed Title: New Orleans Education Reform: A Guide for Cities or a Warning for Communities? (Grassroots Lessons Learned, 2005-2012) Journal Issue Berkeley Review of Education, 4(1) Author Buras, Kristen L., Georgia State University Urban South Grassroots Research Collective, Members Publication Date: 2013 Publication Info: Berkeley [...]
Milwaukee's public school system, already hit hard by devastating budget cuts and teacher firings, has become the next big urban school system to be targeted for privatization. MPS, the home of the nation's first crippling school voucher system, is now threatened with a New Orleans-style [...]
By Alex Molnar, Gary Miron, Luis Huerta, Jennifer King Rice, Larry Cuban, Brian Horvitz, Charisse Gulosino, Sheryl Rankin Shafer | Originally Published at >The National Education Policy Center May 2, 2013 Press Release: Abstract: This national study, which comprehensively reviews 311 virtual schools operating in the United [...]
Originally Published at California Teachers Association – Blog April 15, 2013 At its annual convention this past weekend in Sacramento, the California Democratic Party passed a resolution opposing corporate education reform, specifically naming Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst organization and “Democrats for Education Reform”. Resolution 13-04.47, sponsored by CTA, [...]
Abstract: Reference Publication: Review of KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes Contact: William J. Mathis, (802) 383-0058, wmathis@sover.net Gregory Camilli, (303) 492 8391, gregory.camilli@colorado.edu URL for this press release: http://tinyurl.com/cpna3fn BOULDER, CO (April 30, 2013) – Do middle schools operated by the Knowledge Is [...]
