Gary Rubinstein: Success Academy Attrition Rate Still 75%
Gary Rubinstein has followed the progress of the much-lauded Success Academy charter chain, supposedly the most successful in the nation. He has noted that SA...
Category : Education Reform
Peter Greene on the Diversification of the Koch(topus) Brand
Peter Greene explains how the Koch machine is creating new brands to hide its identity from the unsuspecting. The billionaires Charles and his late brother...
You Are Invited to Join Illinois Families for Public Schools to Discuss School Board Disruptions
On January 27 at 7 p.m. (Central Time), Illinois Families for Public Schools and other groups will sponsor a Zoom meeting on the subject, “Confronting...
Arthur Camins: Stop Filling the Potholes in Education and Healthcare
Arthur Camins, scientist and technologist, warns that public policy in both education and healthcare is deeply flawed and cannot be fixed with patches. No matter...
Heather Cox Richardson Assesses Biden’s First Year
Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian who teaches at Boston College. She writes a blog called “Letters from an American,” in which she brings...
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...
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...