Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Tag: charter schools

The defeat of a school voucher program reveals the truth within...

The momentum for education savings accounts is increasing across the country, and public education advocates say they will endanger neighborhood schools.

An unlikely city in the South could be home to a...

Advocates for school improvement in Jackson, Mississippi, want investments in education infrastructure, not more charter schools and privatization.

Why Michigan public school parents might be too strong of a...

Parents in DeVos’s backyard tell right-wing radicals, “No thank you to divisive, partisan agendas in schools.”

Minneapolis teacher strike brought unity, victory and a reminder of the...

Teachers ended a nearly three-week strike, citing advances in pay and working conditions for many members. But more work remains.

How community schools are helping a hard-hit city dig out of...

Rocked by vanishing industries and charter school expansions, Erie public schools are fighting back with a “transformative” education approach.

In Minnesota’s ‘most diverse city,’ schools are addressing the community’s deep...

Educators use the community schools approach to tackle underlying causes of disparities that show up in classrooms.

Where the Federal government’s charter school program went wrong

The program gives millions to schools that disrupt rather than improve a system of public education that needs to serve all students.

Biden promised to end standardized testing in schools—it was never going...

In education policymaking in Washington, D.C., the “bean counters” are still in charge.

Warren’s ‘transformational’ education plan takes aim at charter schools and vouchers,...

"It's a plan focused on supporting students from birth to college and career, and on supporting teachers throughout their careers."

Epic fail of charter schools in Louisiana

The legacy of the federal government’s charter school grants in Louisiana should not be understood just by the sheer waste of precious education funds, but also by the real human consequences of spreading makeshift charter programs that throw communities into confusion, distress, and a sense of betrayal.

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What else but seething, punitive MAGA grievance explains its undying loyalty – absent real-world...

Whatever MAGA lives lack, brutalizing the even less powerful won’t resolve their miseries.

Seven children killed in Israeli strike on Gaza water site amid growing evidence of...

As Israel admits to a “technical error” in a drone strike that killed children waiting for water, new reports detail a systemic campaign of targeting Gaza’s basic survival infrastructure under U.S. and Western-backed military operations.

Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool

Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.

‘Unforgivable’: FEMA failure during Texas floods tied to Noem’s contract purge and Trump-era sabotage

More than 80% of survivor calls went unanswered after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly cut FEMA’s contractor workforce—days after deadly flooding devastated Texas.

Common weedkiller ingredient diquat linked to organ damage and gut harm as EPA resists...

New research shows diquat, used in place of glyphosate, is more toxic and banned abroad but widely sprayed in US agriculture.