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New Yorker: Union Vote in Bessemer Is Crucial to Revival of Labor and the Fairness of the Economy

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 28, 2021March 29, 2021

March 28, 2021March 29, 2021017

Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes in the New Yorker about the importance of the vote on whether to unionize at an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama. The...

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Brookings: The Battle for a Union at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 21, 2021March 22, 2021

March 21, 2021March 22, 2021017

The struggle now occurring in Bessemer, Alabama, to form a union at an Amazon warehouse could have a dramatic effect on the future of organized...

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Steve Hinnefeld: Black Legislators in Indiana Were Right to Talk about Race

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7February 24, 2021February 25, 2021

February 24, 2021February 25, 2021022

Veteran blogger Steve Hinnefeld writes about education in Indiana. In this post, he describes a controversy in the Legislature about whether a portion of a...

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Alabama: A Charter is Closed Before It Opens

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 11, 2020November 26, 2020

June 11, 2020November 26, 2020021

The Alabama Charter SchoolCommission decided to revoke the charter of Woodland Prep, which had not yet opened. Blogger Larry Lee has the inside scoop. He...

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Alabama: Woodland Prep Charter School Flounders, Flops

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7February 6, 2020November 26, 2020

February 6, 2020November 26, 2020015

The controversial Woodlands Prep Charter School, led by Gulenist Sonar Tarim, is in deep trouble. Larry Lee reports that the proposed school is seeking yet...

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Larry Lee: The Colossal Charter Mess in Alabama

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7January 13, 2020November 26, 2020

January 13, 2020November 26, 2020031

Larry Lee, native Alabaman, follows the charter confusion in his home state, where the law describes precisely how charter schools should be authorized. But, as...

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Alabama: TFA Alum Plans to Open a Federally-Funded Charter in an Impoverished Rural County with Only Two Public Schools

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 13, 2019November 26, 2020

December 13, 2019November 26, 2020016

They stand as silent sentinels of a time gone by. Watch towers on the past. “They” are sturdy concrete silos, rising 40-50 feet above Perry...

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North Carolina: A Mother Sends Her Children to a Charter School But Is Shocked When She Finds Out About the Real Estate Deal

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7November 15, 2019November 26, 2020

November 15, 2019November 26, 2020015

Larry Lee, an education advocate and blogger in Alabama, posted the story of a North Carolina mother who enrolled her sons in charter school, taking...

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Alabama: Fired Principal of Charter School Sues Board for Excluding Students with Disabilities, Plus Nepotism, and Cronyism

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7November 5, 2019November 26, 2020

November 5, 2019November 26, 2020015

The board of Alabama’s first charter school, LEAD Academy, fired its principal, Nicole Ivey, and she is retaliating with a lawsuit that airs the school’s...

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Tennessee: Don’t Copy Alabama’s Mistakes!

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7October 18, 2019November 26, 2020

October 18, 2019November 26, 2020018

Andy Spears, editor of the Tennessee Education Report, says that Tennessee should learn from Alabama’s mistakes when authorizing charter schools. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee wants...

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