by Jeff Bryant | Dec 10, 2017 | Blog
The GOP's tax rewrite hits higher education hard, but new legislation House Republicans are crafting will likely go even farther to worsen the damage. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the House education committee recently gave a preview to its new legislation, a...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 29, 2017 | Blog
As the Republican-controlled Congress continues to advance tax plans that slash funding from public education, a new report reveals how state and local government officials, especially where GOP leadership dominates, have continued a decade-long campaign to keep...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog
When Democrats win big like they did in last week’s elections, Republicans understandably get nervous. But there's another political faction that has something to fret about: folks who've aligned themselves with what's come to be called "education reform”: the embrace...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog
"Top-down class warfare" is what economist Paul Krugman calls the new Republican tax plans being drawn up in Congress, because both plans in the House and Senate propose "huge tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy" and eliminate scores of "credits and exemptions...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 11, 2017 | Blog
There are a lot of differences of opinion on charter schools, but one thing objective observers can agree on is they are divisive. As charter schools have grown more numerous, they've become increasingly unpopular, across political ideologies, and in community after...
