Millions of students are now learning from home, and pro-charter, anti-teacher forces are trying to seize the moment. Last week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that his state will partner ...
I write to defend our system of public education. There is now a loud and powerful Republican-based movement to “privatize public education.” It would take money gained by taxing the public (us!) away ...
Public schools are under siege — not from falling test scores, but by coordinated disinformation campaigns disguised as educational reform. School voucher advocates promise freedom, innovation and ...
Georgia asked feds for reprieve from mandatory tests this year in light of COVID, but secretary won’t approve U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has long condemned what she calls “the overreach ...
The rhetoric of access and excellence should not hide the exploding inequality within UC Berkeley and the deterioration of its education, both due to the administration’s model of privatization. Let’s ...
The bill would prohibit companies that operate Internet-based school services, such as online homework portals, digital grade books for teachers and online educational games, from using or spreading ...
HARTFORD -- The prospect of greater privatization of Connecticut schools has emerged as a hurdle in closed-door negotiations over Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposals to overhaul public education. Senate ...
Check out the state-level reforms to online and charter schools and online coursework passed in the past two years. For years, privatizing education has been a hobby horse for conservatives of all ...
In recent years, private school enrollment has increased in many parts of the U.S. despite the tuition cost rising at a ...
Sue Winton receives funding from Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. With schools reopening after COVID-19 closures, concerns about the safety and certainty of public schooling ...