Newsweek: Teachers Resigning to Avoid COVID
The most important concern about reopening schools is the health and safety of students and staff. The Trump administration has adamantly refused to provide funding...
Month : August 2020
Peter Greene: The Brookings Institution is in Charter School La-La Land
Peter Greene reviews a new charter school study from the Brookings Institution that exhibits near total ignorance of the perils of privatization. Any time that...
Walter Stroup: What Texans Need to Know About Standardized Testing
Walter Stroup is chair of the department of STEM education and teacher development and an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. In 2014,...
Arizona: Charters Can Double Dip, No Problem
The state auditor in Arizona made a weird decision. She decided that the charter schools that applied for and received $100 million in federal funds...
Robert Shepherd: The Trump Convention and the Return of the Fascist Spectacle
Our regular commenter Bob Shepherd writes about the familiarity of the spectacle at the Trump National Convention: The Style of the Trump Fascist Spectacle (Known...
Jan Resseger: A Second Federal Judge Blocks DeVos’ Plan to Divert CARES Money to Private Schools
Congress passed the CARES Act and included over $13 billion to public schools. DeVos issued a rule requiring that public schools share that money with...
Mercedes Schneider: Betsy DeVos Hasn’t Had a New Idea in Thirty Years!
Mercedes Schneider writes here about Betsy DeVos’s single-minded effort to divert public school funding to private and religious schools during the pandemic. As Schneider documents,...
Derek Black: Betsy DeVos and the Theft of CARES Funding
In this article in the New York Daily News, constitutional lawyer Derek Black explains how Betsy DeVos used her authority as Secretary of Educatiin to...
Texas: IDEA Corporate Charter Chain Plans Massive Expansion
The IDEA charter chain hopes to double its enrollment in Texas. This is the free-spending chain that planned to lease a private jet for $2...
Britain Will Open Schools Amid Uncertainty
This story by Stephen Castle appeared in the New York Times: LONDON — When pupils return to Southend High School For Boys next week, the...