Tom Ultican: Oakland Parents and Educators Outraged by Threat of More School Closings
Tom Ultican, retired teacher of physics and mathematics, has been keeping a close watch on the machinations of the privatization movement. He writes here about...
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Arthur Camins: Stop Filling the Potholes in Education and Healthcare
Arthur Camins, scientist and technologist, warns that public policy in both education and healthcare is deeply flawed and cannot be fixed with patches. No matter...
Missouri: A Parent Speaks Up for St. Louis Public Schools
The Republican-controlled legislature in Missouri has imposed charter schools on the state’s two urban districts (but not their own). The legislature is now considering HB1552,...
North Carolina: Republicans Legislators Make War on Public Schools
Ever since Republicans in North Carolina took control of the General Assembly (legislature) in 2010, they have tried to diminish the state’s responsibility for the...
Republicans Stoop to Role of Schoolyard Bully
This article by Ed Montini in the Arizona Republic explains the childish behavior of Republican leaders, who engage in taunts instead of reasoned discourse about...
Scranton: Teachers Will Go on Strike
A wave of labor activism is underway. Amazon workers in Staten Island in New York City are trying to organizing a union. Bloomberg News reports:...
Virginia: What’s At Stake in the Governor’s Election?
In the race for governor of Virginia, Republicans have focused their campaign on hot-button issues like banning “critical race theory” from the schools, opposing mask...
Jan Resseger: The Disaster of Student-Based Budgeting
Jan Resseger hopes that Pedro Martinez, the new superintendent in Chicago, will eliminate the disastrous policy of “student-based budgeting.” The importance of the topic is...
North Carolina Parent: I Used to Think My Legislators Supported Public Schools. They Don’t.
Renee Sekel is a parent and public school advocate in North Carolina. She sends her children to public schools. She remembers when she naively believed...
Jan Resseger: Ohio’s Education Budget Fracas
Jan Resseger writes here about the tussle in the legislature over the Ohio education budget. Funding was increased for public schools, but funding for charters...