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Mercedes Schneider: How TFA Alums Use Their Network to Move into Top Jobs and Score Fat Contracts

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 27, 2021September 28, 2021

September 27, 2021September 28, 2021025

This post is Mercedes Schneider at her best, pulling together the strings of a tangled web involving money, power, TFA, Chiefs for Change, John White,...

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Mercedes Schneider: After the Storm

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 3, 2021September 4, 2021

September 3, 2021September 4, 2021018

Mercedes Schneider teaches high school English in Louisiana. Here is her report on life after Hurricane Ida: Hurricane Ida hit four days ago. I’m able...

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Mercedes Schneider: Why Does This State Board Member and TFA Official Consistently Fail to File Financial Disclosure Forms?

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 5, 2021June 6, 2021

June 5, 2021June 6, 2021020

Louisiana hIgh school teacher Mercedes Schneider is required by law to file a financial disclosure form every year, and she never misses the deadline. State...

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New Orleans: The Other Side of the Story

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 7, 2021March 8, 2021

March 7, 2021March 8, 2021052

I recently interviewed Raynard Sanders, a veteran educator in New Orleans, about his new book The Coup D’etat of the New Orleans Public Schools: Money,...

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Mercedes Schneider: The Hoax of Online “Learning” in Louisiana

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7January 28, 2021January 29, 2021

January 28, 2021January 29, 2021059

Mercedes Schneider reports here on the absurd class sizes assigned to teachers in Louisiana in virtual classes. The teachers are not “teachers,” they are in...

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Louisiana: Reading Scores in Early Grades Decline under Reformer John White

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7January 27, 2021January 28, 2021

January 27, 2021January 28, 2021036

Louisiana has been firmly in the grip of “reformers” (i.e., believers in privatization, Teach for America, and high-stakes testing) for many years. The “reformers’” biggest...

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Mercedes Schneider: Surviving Hurricanes, COVID, and DeVos

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7October 31, 2020November 26, 2020

October 31, 2020November 26, 2020042

Mercedes Schneider teaches English to high school students in Louisiana. In this post, she describes her triumphs of recent months: one hurricane after another has...

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“Free to Choose: Can School Choice Reduce Student Achievement?”

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7October 4, 2020November 26, 2020

October 4, 2020November 26, 2020038

For the past thirty years, school choice advocates have claimed that the best way to improve education was to give families public money to send...

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Mercedes Scheider: My Students Are Wearing Masks!

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 17, 2020November 26, 2020

September 17, 2020November 26, 2020043

Mercedes Schneider is back to work teaching high school English in Louisiana. She is doing her best to keep her students socially distanced, though she...

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Chief Justice Roberts Provides Swing Vote to Strike Down Law to Ban Abortions

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 29, 2020November 26, 2020

June 29, 2020November 26, 2020032

Chief Justice John Roberts voted with the Supreme Court’s four liberal justices to strike down a Louisiana law that would have severely restricted access to...

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