How Students Pay for Corporate Tax Abatements
Good Jobs First entered the national scene when it produced documentation that the CARES Act was being used to funnel billions of dollars to private...
Month : March 2021
Angie Sullivan: Nevada Gives Tax Breaks for Business, Shortchanges Kids
Angie Sullivan is a teacher in a Title 1 elementary school in Las Vegas, a city with free-flowing funds for casinos and entertainment but underfunded...
Peter Greene: Is Your Charter School a Public School?
I like this post by Peter Greene a lot because it clears up confusion about what defines a public school. Many people think that charter...
Please Complete This Survey on Opting Out of Standardized Testing
Researchers at Teachers College, Columbia University, are conducting a survey on opting out of standardized tests. You can help them by completing their survey. I...
Texas: Senate Education Committee Guts Local Control of Schools
The Texas Senate Education Committee bowed to the wishes of the powerful charter lobby and granted sole power to the State Commissioner (appointed by the...
A Bold Idea for Testing: Opt-In
The Ossining, New York, school district has a creative response to the federal mandate to administer tests at a time when children’s lives have been...
Joel Westheimer: Three Essential Lessons That COVID Taught Us About Education
Joel Westheimer is a professor of education at the University of Ottawa. He wrote this article for The Ottawa Citizen and shared it with me....
Justice for George Floyd
This editorial was written by the editorial board of the Washington Post. It expresses my views. THE FIRST witness the prosecution called in the trial...
Ezra Klein Interviews Bernie Sanders
Ezra Klein of the New York Times interviewed Senator Bernie Sanders for his podcast, “The Ezra Klein Show.” Listen to “The Ezra Klein Show”:Apple Podcasts, Pocket...
Florida: League of Women Voters Exposes Voucher Boondoggle As Big Business
The Florida League of Women Voters has long been wary about the state’s rush to privatize public school funding through charters and vouchers. It has...