Carol Burris: Cardona Is a Public School Guy
Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education, watched the Senate confirmation hearings of Miguel Cardona for Secretary of Education. She was delighted...
Category : Supporting public schools
Emiliana Dore: Charter Schools Are Not the Answer!
Emiliana Dore wrote a powerful article at Medium about the importance of public schools and why charter schools do not promote racial or social justice....
Jan Resseger: Senator Jon Tester is A Hero of Public Education
Jan Resseger writes here about Montana Senator Jon Tester’s deep and well-grounded belief in public education. He says that Democrats would have greater success in...
Wendy Lecker: Two Books That Demonstrate Why Public Education Matters
Wendy Lecker is a civil rights attorney who writes frequently for the Stamford Advocate. In this column, she reviews two important books: One shows how...
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus: It’s Called Public Education
This is a beautiful article by Jennifer Raab, president of Hunter College, which is part of the City University of New York. It appeared in...
Capital & Main: Five Ways to “De-DeVos” the U.S. Department of Education
After four years of Betsy DeVos and her antagonism toward public schools, civil rights protection, and students who were defrauded by for-profit colleges, the U.S....
Florina Rodov: Why I Stopped Teaching in a Charter School
Journalist Florina Rodov taught for several years in a New York City public schools, but she was turned off by the testing craze and the...
News from the Network for Public Education
Thanks to the energetic leadership of Marla Kilfoyle, who is former executive director of the BATS, the Network for Public Education has developed a strong...
Biden Aide Describes His Education Goals
For those of us who are nervous about what President-Elect Biden will do in education, specifically, whether he will revive the failed ideas of Race...
Mitchell Robinson: How to Make America Great
Mitchell Robinson, a professor at Michigan State University, has advice for state Democratic parties about their message to voters. He suggests what they need to...