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A Florida School Improved Reading and Math Scores With Streetlights—And Joe Biden Is All For It

Where the Federal Government’s Charter School Program Went Wrong

The Amount of Federal Dollars Going to Charter Schools Should Be Zero

Biden Promised to End Standardized Testing in Schools—It Was Never Going to Be Easy

I First Bought Into the Charter School Agenda—Here’s What Led Me to Change My Mind

For-Profit Charter Schools Gone Wild—Proof That Greed and Education Don’t Mix

Joe Biden Has a Golden Opportunity to Strengthen Public Education

Betsy DeVos Is Gone, But Her Education Agenda Is Rolling Out Across the Country

We Need a Democratic Approach to Reimagining Schools—Asking People, Not Billionaires and Ideologues, What They Want

The Charter Schools Movement Sees Public Schools Preparing for Deep Funding Cuts as a Growth Opportunity

Are Charter Schools Banking on the Suburbs?

Worse Than Betsy DeVos: Outside Money Swamps 2020 School Board Elections

Teachers Are on a Tightrope With No Safety Net

How Online Learning Companies Are Using the Pandemic to Take Over Classroom Teaching

Online Charter Schools Are Not a Solution to Education in a Pandemic

Charter Schools Find Gold in Federal Government Aid to Small Businesses While Black-Owned Firms Get the Shaft

Why Black Lives Matter in These Milwaukee Schools

The ‘Broken Windows’ Approach to Teaching Is Breaking Our Schools, and Students of Color Are Harmed the Most

The Hijacking of Police Reform by Wealthy Opportunists Resembles the Harm Done to Public Schools

After Years of Underfunding, Now Public School Teachers Are Supposed to Save the Nation’s Economy?

Education 101: Don’t Open a New Charter School in the Middle of a Pandemic

How Education Secretary DeVos Is Using the Pandemic to Get What She Wants

Here’s What More Public Schools Need to Look Like After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Some Communities Are Being Forced to Fight off School Closures and Privatization in the Midst of the Pandemic

As Economic Tsunami Crashes into America’s Schools, Government Leaders Like DeVos Are Trying to Ram Through Their Agendas