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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

How Betsy DeVos and the Charter School Movement Are Brazenly Using Coronavirus Pandemic to Advance Their Agendas

While the Public Experiences a Health Calamity, the Homeschooling Movement Sees a Big Opportunity

Why the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Weaken the School Privatization Agenda

Why a Threatened Teacher Walkout Points the Way to Reverse America’s Underfunded Public Services

National Education Policy Center Features Jeff Bryant’s Series on the Corporations Taking Over School Curriculum

The Charter School Movement Is Imploding—What Comes Next May Be Worse

Could Corporations Take Over Control of What Public Schools Teach?

How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way Into America’s Public Schools

Has the Democratic Party Reversed Its Attitude on Charters?

Why the Federal Government’s Billion-Dollar Charter School Program Is a Bigger Disaster Than We Thought

Why Striking Teachers Across America Are Fighting for Much More Than Their Paychecks

How Billionaire Charter School Funders Corrupted the School Leadership Pipeline

Another School Leadership Disaster: Private Companies Work an Insider Game to Reap Lucrative Contracts

Nonprofit Quarterly Cites Our Schools Report by Sarah Lahm on Nonprofit Charters

Why 2020 Dems Should Target the Nonprofit Charter School Industry

A National Public School ‘Leadership’ Disaster: Private Firms Vetting Candidates for Superintendent