by Jeff Bryant | Feb 16, 2018 | Blog
A favorite media tactic of right-wing policymakers is to claim they are the victims whenever those who’ve had their civil rights or their political voices stifled by their policies make grievances known, and advocate for change. It’s a clever way to turn...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 8, 2018 | Blog
The warnings came right after the storm: Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico would be used as an opportunity to transfer management of the island’s schools to private operators of charter schools, and introduce voucher programs that would redirect...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 6, 2018 | Blog
Seattle classroom teacher Jesse Hagopian wants to transform the school-to-prison pipeline into a school-to-justice pipeline for millions of Black and Brown students in American schools. He and thousands of his educator colleagues are taking strides toward that goal...
by Jeff Bryant | Feb 2, 2018 | Blog
Despite his campaign promises to transform American education, President Donald Trump had almost nothing to say about the subject in his first State of the Union speech, and his controversial education secretary Betsy DeVos has not made national headlines for some...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 25, 2018 | Blog
There was a serious bump on the road to what were billed as “record-breaking celebrations” of charter schools and other forms of “school choice” this week. News outlets in Ohio reported the largest charter school closure ever in that state, and...
