How Charter Schools Select Their Students
Wagma Mommandi and Kevin Welner write in The Progressive about the ways that charter schools select and remove students. These practices are not permitted in...
Category : Education Reform
Bruce Baker: How to Make Charter Schools More Accountable and Transparent
Bruce Baker is a school finance expert at Rutgers. For years, he has been concerned about the lack of transparency and accountability in the charter...
Fred Klonsky: When Emancipation Came to D.C., Slave Owners Received Reparations
Fred Klonsky writes that when slaves were emancipated in Washington, D.C. in 1862, the slave owners received payment for the loss of their property, but...
Thomas B. Edsall: Is Education No Longer the Great Equalizer?
This article by the political journalist Thomas B. Edsall appeared in the New York Times. I don’t think the title of the original (used here)...
Axios: GOP States Enacting Laws to Prevent Discrimination Against the Unvaccinated
Caitlin Owens of Axios writes that Republican-controlled states are considering or have enacted laws that ban discrimination against people who refuse to be vaccinated against...
Two Pro-Public School Organizations Are Merging
In the education world, currently controlled by a coalition of billionaires and the rightwing think tanks and legislators they finance, public schools have some valuable...
Boston Changes Admissions Criteria for Exam Schools
Boston has several elite high schools where admission is determined by test scores. The most famous is the Boston Latin School. The Boston school board...
Ohio Governor Signs Bill To Ban Schools and Universities from Requiring COVID Vaccinations
America, we have a problem. The COVID is spreading, largely through a highly contagious variant called Delta, but only 48.3% of the population is vaccinated....
Bruce D. Baker: Time to Tax Churches!
Bruce D. Baker is a school finance expert at Rutgers University. He writes here that the changing legal status of religious schools opens the door...
Missouri: GOP Passes Vouchers
The voucher movement should be dead, in light of the numerous evaluations showing that voucher schools do not get better results than public schoools, and...