by Jeff Bryant | Feb 12, 2019 | Blog
Photo credit: Fibonacci Blue/flickr/cc When striking Los Angeles teachers won their demand to call for a halt to charter school expansions in California, they set off a domino effect, and now teachers in other large urban districts are making the same...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 29, 2019 | Blog
Photo credit: Fibonacci Blue/flickr/cc The emergence of charter schools as an important consideration in teacher collective bargaining agreements, and the recognition of charters as a form of privatization, are two major developments in the education policy and...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 4, 2018 | Blog
Even before the votes from the recent midterm elections were completely counted – a process that took nearly two weeks in many races – numerous prominent news outlets were quick to report on the supposed failure of the “education wave,” those school...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 28, 2018 | Blog
While the serial outrages of the Trump administration continue to make headlines, the more mundane activities of his cabinet officials and their underlings often fly under the radar. Take U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, for instance, whose nomination drew a...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 16, 2018 | Blog
One of the big winners in the 2018 midterm elections you may not have heard about is education funding. This may come as news to you – because just as some observers incorrectly concluded last week’s “Blue Wave” was merely a ripple, quick takes...
