An Important New Book About New Orleans and Its Schools
Three scholars have recently published a very informative book about the history of education in New Orleans. The authors tell this story by scrutinizing one...
Category : School Choice
Speduktr: We All Pay for Public Services and Public Goods, for Our Common Benefit
The privatization movement is built on the ideology of “a backpack full of cash.” Give the money to the family and let them spend it...
Jeanne Kaplan: The Battle Against Deformers in Denver is Always Uphill
Jeanne Kaplan is a veteran civil rights activist who was elected to serve two terms on the Denver school board. She has been active in...
The Politics Of School Choice
Julian Vasquez Heilig, Jameson Brewer, and Frank Adamson have written a peer-reviewed analysis of the politics of school choice. As Heilig wrote in his description...
Brookings Study: How D.C. School Choice Intensifies Segregation
The Brookings Institution published a study of the D.C. school system, which is almost evenly divided between public schools and charter schools. It was written...
Florida: Inside the Dark, Dirty Secrets of Florida’s Jeb Crow Schools of “Choice”
Billy Townsend was a school board member in Polk County, Florida. He saw up close and personal how charters were sucking the high-scoring students out...
Jan Resseger: How to Wreck Your State’s Public Schools
Laura H. Chapman says: Posted on Jan’s website. “And perhaps, if legislators had to budget transparently for the full cost of the program instead of...
Why Zip Codes Matter
From the earliest days of corporate reform, which is now generally recognized to have been a failed effort to “reform” schools by privatizing them and...
Florida Set to Expand Vouchers Again
Florida’s State Constitution has explicit language forbidding public schools fir religious schools. Voters in Florida passed a referendum in 2012 against vouchers. No matter. Republican...
Eve Ewing Is Wrong About Charter Schools
Eve Ewing is a writer and scholar whose work I very much admire. When her book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on...