Oakland Parent: Stop the Privatization! We Don’t Want It!
Oakland parent Jane Nylund tells the story of creeping privatization in her city. The Oakland School Board will vote tonight on whether to close another...
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Oakland: Board Debates Closing a Score of Public Schools, Amidst Loud Protests
The public schools of Oakland, California, are being slowly strangled by the growth of charter schools. The school board is discussing the potential closure of...
Charleston, South Carolina: The Collapse of a Federally-Funded Teacher Incentive Plan
When I was writing The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (2010), I researched the...
Join Nancy MacLean and Me to Talk About Privatization of Our Nation’s Public Schools
I am delighted to invite you to join a webinar where the eminent Duke historian Nancy MacLean and I will discuss “Public Education in Chains,”...
Leonie Haimson: The Rise and Fall of a Charter Entrepreneur
Leonie Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters and a member of the board of the Network for Public Education, wrote “a short history” of...
Donald Cohen: “Market-Based” School Reform Has Failed
Donald Cohen is the executive director of “In the Public Interest” and co-author of an important new book The Privatization of Everything. He titled this...
Dark Money in the Holy City: A Short History of School Privatization in Charleston, South Carolina
Paul Bowers was the education reporter at the Charleston Post and Courier. He wrote this post at my request. A reader alerted me to the...
Who Demoralized the Nation’s Teachers? Readers Respond
Last week, I posted my thoughts on “Who Demoralized the Nation’s Teachers?” I sought to identify the people and organizations that spread the lie that...
West Virginia: County Judge Temporarily Blocks Opening of New Charter Schools
After the inspiring teachers’ strike in 2019, which closed every public school in the state, the billionaire Governor Jim Justice of West Virginia promised to...
Chile: Former Student Leader Wins Presidency
The people of Chile are expunging the last traces of the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet. They elected Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old member of the Chilean...