Billy Townsend: The DeSantis-Corcoran Scandal Grows Uglier
Billy Townsend digs into the burgeoning scandal surrounding Governor DeSantis and state commissioner of education Richard Corcoran. The Tampa Bay Tribune-Miami Herald reported that the...
Category : Education Reform
Virginia: Youngkin Will Get More Charter Schools by Gutting Local Control
Remember when the Republican Party demanded local control of schools? Insisted on local control? No longer. In its quest for school privatization, the GOP has...
Pastors for Texas Children: WALK YOUR TALK
Our friends, the Pastors for Texas Children, sent the following message today. There are Senators giving speeches today about the legacy of Dr. King, even...
New Dates for NPE Conference!
Due to the the Omicron surge of COVID, the Network for Public Education and NPE Action has again rescheduled our in-person conference. It will now...
Who Has Been AWOL in Defending the Schools Against the Attacks on CRT?
This day honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is an appropriate time to consider the widespread efforts to restrict the teaching of racism in America’s...
Steven Singer: Public Schools Are Best Equipped to Realize Dr. King’s Vision of Education
Steven Singer examines Dr. Martin Luther King’s view of education by quoting from a paper that he wrote as an 18-year-old student at Morehouse College....
Jitu Brown: Schools Can Fight the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Civil rights leader Jitu Brown wrote in an opinion article for The Chicago Tribune about the importance of using the schools to combat the school-to-prison...
Billy Townsend: The Collapse of Florida’s “Schools of Hope” Program
Five years ago, Florida’s Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran announced his plan to “save” the state’s lowest performing schools. He called it “Schools of Hope.”...
John Merrow: The Lives We Lost
It has become traditional at the end of the year to pay tribute to those who died during the year. Usually, they are famous or...
Why Are They So Angry…About Masks, Vaccines, CRT, Voting, and More?
Marty Levine used to write regularly for the Nonprofit Quarterly, and he seemed to be the only person writing about philanthropy who understood the danger...