by Jeff Bryant | Apr 14, 2017 | Blog
Jay Badams has reached the limits of his patience. As superintendent of Erie, Pennsylvania schools since 2009, he’s dealt with the chronic underfunding of his schools for years. Every year, he and his staff grapple with ever more painful budget cuts. He and his staff...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 13, 2017 | Blog
In this season of resistance, there's no issue more imperative to your community than the fight for public education. While Congress is in recess, until April 23, you've got the opportunity – and a brand new advocacy tool from the Network for Public Education – to...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 6, 2017 | Blog
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos finally found a public school she could visit where there wouldn't be protests. It's on a military base, safely inside the compound of Fort Bragg in North Carolina. As a local news outlet reports, DeVos used her appearance at...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 2, 2017 | Blog
Students with disabilities already face a difficult path through our nation's education system, but President Donald Trump appears determined to add to the disadvantages these students already face. His nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court is yet...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
Public school supporters are angry at President Trump's budget proposal, which plans to cut funding to the Department of Education by 13 percent – taking that department's outlay down to the level it was ten years ago. But the target for their anger should not be just...
