by Jeff Bryant | Sep 11, 2017 | Blog
“This is a disaster.” Walker Gaffney and I were at the entry of Cleveland High School in St. Louis. Broken glass speckles the floor. Black mold crawls up the sides of the stone walls. Rotted plaster hangs from the high arched ceiling. “It’s worse every time I come...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 7, 2017 | Blog
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos proclaims her agenda is to "focus everything about education on individual students," but if she really cared about the welfare of students she would speak out about what her boss President Trump is doing to hundreds of...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog
While President Trump's boastful comments about crowd size at his tour of Hurricane Harvey's devastation in Houston struck some as egotistical and self-aggrandizing, his Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had a similar performance in Florida, where she robotically...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 25, 2017 | Blog
At the recent Netroots Nation conference, the country’s largest annual gathering of progressive activists and political leaders, a protest broke out when Stacey Evans, candidate for governor in the 2018 Georgia Democratic primary, addressed the crowd. The protesters...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 24, 2017 | Blog
A recent headline from CNN that declares "schools throughout the country are grappling with teacher shortages" may seem like a rerun to anyone who's been paying attention to news about public schools over recent years. "A perennial issue," an article in Education Week...
