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Colorado voters will be faced with a proposed constitutional amendment that is meant to enshrine school choice in the state. Mike DeGuire, writing for the Colorado Times Recorder explains where it came from, and why voters should say no. On November 5, 2024, Colorado voters will weigh in on a...
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John Thompson is an Oklahoma native and retired, award-winning teacher. In this piece originally published at Oklahoma Voice, he challenges the centering of standardized testing in schools. When I first walked into John Marshall High School in 1992, I was stunned by the exceptional quality of so...
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Jose Luis Vilson: On Being Haitian And What We Teach Ourselves - Network For Public Education
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Jose Luis Vilson reflects on the targeting of Haitian immigrants and an inclusive vision for public schools. On multiple occasions, I’ve advanced the idea of teachers as the vanguards of society. For better or worse, teachers are some of the first adults in a child’s life that transmit a...
on Thu, 10PM
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Anne Lutz Fernandez: Yes, What We Pay Teachers Matters - Network For Public Education
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Anne Lutz Fernandez reacts to a new report showing that the penalty college grads pay for going into teaching instead of some other field is larger than ever. Public school teachers once took home salaries in line with workers in similar professions. Through the eighties and into the nineties,...
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Parents for Public Schools: School Closed - Network For Public Education
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Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco is a group of concerned parents in San Francisco. In this post, they address a concern that has arisen in many cities– school closure. What is a sure-fire way for a school district to unsettle its constituents, raise anxiety, and cause panic across the...
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Steve Nuzum: "Universal" School Vouchers Cost States Billions - Network For Public Education
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Steve Nuzum explains the sleight-of-hands used to promote vouchers as demonstrated in South Carolina and elsewhere. This is a great explainer for folks who have not been following the school voucher movement. At the end of the session, South Carolina joined states like Arizona and Florida in...
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Posting from Alaska, Matthew Beck reports on a Moms for Liberty attempt to “light up” a school board meeting. It didn’t turn out so well. While students and educators are busily preparing for another year of growth and achievement, the very fine people of Moms for Liberty Anchorage are spending...
on Mon, 7PM
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Garry Rayno: Education Voucher Advocates Seek National Solution - Network For Public Education
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Writing for InDepthNH, Gary Rayno puts the New Hampshire voucher in the broader context of anti-democracy movements in this country. The drive to create doubt and even rejection of these long-standing pillars of our society is to eventually destroy the underpinnings of government to create a new...
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Beth Lewis is the director of Save Our Schools Arizona. Writing for AZMirror, she cuts through the smoke and mirrors of a recent press release from the state superintendent of schools. Tom Horne, our state’s Republican superintendent of public instruction, isn’t known for cozying up to the...
on Sep 14
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In a special op-ed for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Secretary of Education takes a strong stand for public schools. Public education is one of the most powerful engines driving the American Dream. From our nation’s astronauts to artists, scientists to writers, engineers to musicians —...
on Sep 14
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Steve Nuzum: New Book Bans Have Begun in South Carolina - Network For Public Education
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Steve Nuzum blogs from South Carolina about the impact of new regulations. The process of banning or restricting books under South Carolina’s new “instructional materials” regulation is beginning to gather steam across the state. Many advocates predicted during the end of last school year, as...
on Sep 13
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Maurice Cunningham: The Dark Money Defunding Rural Schools - Network For Public Education
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Maurice Cunningham, author of Dark Money and the Politics of School Privatization,has been tracking parental rights groups for years, and explains some of their true sources and alliances. This piece was originally published at Barn Raiser. Americans share fundamental values that inform our...
on Sep 9
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In Arizona, dune biggies were ultimately not approved as a voucher expense. But how did that even get to be a question? Laurie Roberts breaks it down for the Arizona Republic. Good news for taxpayers, especially the ones who think public money ought to go to public schools. The state is drawing...
on Sep 8
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Jan Resseger looks at some research about the big players in the culture panic coming after public schools. Reposted with permission. Today’s post is the second in a two-part reflection on universal vouchers and the meaning of Project 2025, an agenda driven and amplified by today’s culture wars...
on Sep 7
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Journalist Maureen Downey talked to author and researcher Josh Cowen about his new book and the true source of the great voucher push. Education researcher Josh Cowen understands that the movement to pass voucher bills in states across the country and the national rollback of reproductive...
on Sep 6
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David Lee Finkle: Love of Teaching is Under Attack - Network For Public Education
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David Lee Finkle is best known on the internet as the creator of Mr Fitz, the long-running teacher comic strip. But he also occasionally blogs, as in this piece about what he sees as attacks on the heart of the profession. I recently wrote about why I love teaching, and why I think my love......
on Sep 5
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At The Conversation, Ryan Summers points out that it’s not just the usual topics, but some of the fundamental ideas of science itself under attack. Scientific theory has had a rough time in America’s public schools. Almost 100 years ago, science teacher John Scopes was convicted of violating a...
on Sep 4
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Jay Waagmeester covers education for the Florida Phoenix. He reports that, given the chance to tighten up its accountability rules for how taxpayer-funded vouchers can be spent, Florida’s legislator decided to take a hard pass. The organization providing approximately 99% of school choice...
on Sep 3
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For some states, the dream is to deprofessionalize teaching to declare any human with a pulse “qualified” to do the work of teaching. Paige Shoemaker DeMio points out that you do not solve a labor shortage by devaluing the work. Happy Labor Day. As the new school year begins across the country,...
on Sep 2
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Paul Thomas: Collateral Damage in Yet Another Reading War - Network For Public Education
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Paul Thomas puts the current reading battles in perspective. This is both a favorite lede in mainstream media and a perfect example of the enduring story we tell about education in the U.S.: Fewer than half of New York City public school students showed proficiency on reading exams this year, a...
on Aug 31
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John Merrow: The First Day of School - Network For Public Education
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John Merrow is retired from his work as one of the nation’s top education reporters, but he still blogs about education, and he recently suggested a first day speech for teachers. (It’s my hope that my grandchildren’s teachers, and lots of other teachers as well, will say something like this on...
on Aug 29
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Pierre Tristam is the editor of FlaglerLive, where he published this takedown of Florida’s voucher system. It would be absurd, I think we can all agree, if Paul Renner, our esteemed Speaker of the House and Flagler’s chief pork slabber, were to champion a bill entitling every citizen to take out...
on Aug 29
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Andrew Seidel: Oklahoma's Preview of Project 2025 Education - Network For Public Education
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Constitutional attorney Andrew Seidel points to Oklahoma as a prediction of what education would look like under Project 2025. Published at Religion Dispatches. “Project 2025 is not some far off possibility for Oklahomans, it has been our reality for some time now,” the Rev. Dr. Shannon Fleck,...
on Aug 27
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Steve Nuzum used to teach sixth graders, his first encounter with the problems of eliminating recess. I taught sixth grade for two years in Southeast Richland County. During that time, I only saw my kids get to spend time outside a handful of times, during school-wide events like field day. On...
on Aug 25
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Jeff Bryant: How Charter Schools Became Politically Isolated - Network For Public Education
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The charter school industry was once the darling of the ed reform crowd, but these days charters are isolated and missing much of the support they once enjoyed. Writing for The Progressive, Jeff Bryant explains how that happened. Now that abolishing the U.S. Department of Education has become...
on Aug 24
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Sydney Sims is the youth and education reporter for Capital B Atlanta. In this piece she considers the implications of Project 2025 for education in Georgia (and elsewhere). Georgians with school-age children and who attended college with the help of federal student loans routinely interact with...
on Aug 23
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Count Jan Resseger among the folks who sense in Tim Walz a different approach to education. Reposted with permission. I was stunned on the morning of August 2nd, when I read an Ezra Klein interview in the NY Times with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, one of the people Kamala Harris was considering...
on Aug 23
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Writing for Brookings, Douglas Harris explains how the new universal voucher push is undoing centuries of tradition in America. Few things are more fundamental to a society than its traditions. They guide our actions through difficult and changing times. They keep us grounded and steady. They...
on Aug 23
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Will Tim Walz at long last shape up the Democratic Party when it comes to education? Journalist Jeff Bryant considers the party’s trajectory. The last time the Democratic Party had a former K-12 school teacher running for vice president was in 1960, and the candidate was Lyndon Johnson. Although...
on Aug 16
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Reporting from Ohio, Jan Resseger has the story on an important lawsuit filed to roll back Ohio’s voucher program. Reposted with permission. In The School Voucher Illusion: Exposing the Pretense of Equity, academic experts who have studied the growing expansion of private school tuition vouchers...
on Aug 15
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Dark money expert Maurice Cunningham notes that DFER, the school privatization group that presents itself as a Democratic group, is up to their shenanigans again in Massachusetts. Reposted with permission. So it begins: Democrats for Education Reform is pouring dark money back into...
on Aug 10
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Writing for the Indianapolis Star, Jim May explains that the argument in favor of some charter schools is full of holes. In his column, Mind Trust CEO Brandon Brown asks why some Hoosiers are skeptical of charter schools. He follows this up with the type of selectively cherry-picked data that...
on Aug 9
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Scholar and teacher Mercedes Schneider digs into what the Heritage Foundation (the folks who brought us Project 2025) has in mind for local school boards. Reposted with permission. The Heritage Foundation is in the news for authoring and promoting Project 2025 as the bluprint for the next...
on Aug 9
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At Oklahoma Columnist, Clay Horning lays into Oklahoma’s hapless education chief, Ryan Walters. What’s Ryan Walters’ play? Is it money and fame? Is it actually changing the educational infrastructure and curriculum in Oklahoma and beyond? Is it to be wined and dined by the conservative elite in...
on Aug 7
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Sue Kingery Woltanski tells the long story of a Florida school district that was handed over to a charter company–and then handed back. Reposted with permission. Some Florida School Grade news: For the first time in 25 years, Jefferson County’s K-12 public school has earned a “B.” While I remain...
on Aug 6
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Lydia Carlin is a public voices fellow for racial justice in early childhood with The OpEd Project and The National Black Child Development Institute. In this piece for The Fulcrum, she dissects recent attempts to inject a certain brand of Christianity into classrooms and keep certrain sorts of...
on Aug 5
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Dale Farris: Book banning continues to spiral out of control - Network For Public Education
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Writing for the Beaumont Enterprise, resident Dale Farris calls for an end to the book banning panic. Book banning is now out of control. Across the nation, zealots bombard public school boards and city councils with vicious demands to ban particular books from libraries. The nonprofit literary...
on Aug 4
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Teacher Thomas Courtney considers just a few of the problems with displaying the Ten Commandments. I’ve decided I’m not waiting for it to arrive outside my classroom door unprepared. I’m not waiting for those domestic actors who missed basic civics and history classes to create unconstitutional...
on Aug 3
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Jan Resseger connects some dots between recent reports and concludes that Ohio’s support for public education is not very robust. Reposed with permission. As chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Senator Bernie Sanders just released a comprehensive and...
on Aug 2
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In North Carolina, the GOP candidate for state superintendent is way out there. Justin Parmenter has been cataloging her bizarre opinions. This is just one of them. Michele Morrow will be the Republican candidate on November’s ballot for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction. If...
on Aug 1
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Nancy Flanagan: I am a Patriot - Network For Public Education
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Nancy Flanagan in a recent post considers the question of whether or not schools can teach students to be patriots. Reposted with permission, I am a patriot and I love my country. Because my country is all I know. Jackson Browne Of all the things manifested by the upheaval dividing this nation...
on Jul 31
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Mercedes Schneider: Project 2025: Politicking for Jesus. - Network For Public Education
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Teacher and scholar Mercedes Schneider takes a look at Project 2025. Reposted with permission. Project 2025 identifies itself as “The Presidential Transition Project,” further described as “an agenda prepared by and for conservatives who will be ready on Day One of the next Administration to...
on Jul 31
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In an interview with Cal Turner and Sara Van Horn for Jacobin, Jennifer Berkshire, co-author of The Education Wars explains how the culture wars figure in the larger debates about public education. SARA VAN HORNWhat are the biggest threats to public education in the United States today? JENNIFER...
on Jul 29
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Writing for her blog Accountabaloney, Sue Kingery Woltanski takes a look at ballooning cost of privatized education in Florida. Reposted with permission. Step Up for Students (the politically connected, scholarship funding organization that oversees more than 99% of Florida’s voucher...
on Jul 28
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Thomas Ultican: Southlake Intolerance fueled by Christian Nationalism - Network For Public Education
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Thomas Ultican takes a look at some of the privatization drive coming out of Southlake, Texas. Reposted with permission. Mike Hixenbaugh’s They Came for the Schools tells the story of a suburb of Dallas, purposefully divided by Christian nationalists. He shared a magazine story...
on Jul 27
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Let’s talk about indoctrination, specifically a new “tax education” program that pushes some right wing ideology about taxation. Journalist Katya Schwenk reports at Jacobin. When students head back to school in the fall, some will get an unusual crash course in taxes and personal finance. In...
on Jul 26
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There are folks in Kentucky who really, really want school vouchers, badly enough to propose amending the state constitution. Jason Bailey, Dustin Pugel, Joanna LeFebvre, and Pam Thomas, writing for the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, look at what impact those vouchers could be expected to...
on Jul 25
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Josephine Lee: Mike Miles Moved Texas School Funds To Colorado - Network For Public Education
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Josephine Lee reports for the Texas Observer on an Observer investigations that found “irregularities” in how Houston’s superintendent handled taxpayer dollars. Houston Independent School District (HISD) Superintendent Mike Miles claims to be a financial wizard. But controversy has followed the...
on Jul 23
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Janelle Stecklein is the editor of Oklahoma Voice, and in this commentary for that publication, she calls out education leadership in the state. Every time it seems like our public school policies can’t get any more bizarre, our education officials manage to up the ante. In the past month alone,...
on Jul 22
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Stephen Dyer: Ohio Charter Schools Still Struggle - Network For Public Education
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At his substack 10th Period, Stephen Dyer explains that Ohio’s charter schools are still not living up to their big promises. Way back in 2015, he wrote about the state’s plan to improve its “historically ridiculed” charter sector. Since then…well… Since I wrote that piece, Ohio has spent nearly...
on Jul 21