Our #Red4EdNC blog features the voices of public school educators and advocates from around the state. If you have something to say about what’s happening in NC on the topic of public schools, please contact us at [email protected]. We want as many voices as possible to lift up all of the good things happening in public schools, highlight things that need to change, and advocate for ways to make things better!
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‘School Choice’ Does Not Provide Better Education for All Families
By Carol Burris, Executive Director of the Network for Public Education – Advocates of a rightwing, billionaire-funded campaign to replace public education with a privatized education marketplace have been candid about their goals and disciplined in pursuing them. A new report from the organization I lead, the Network for Public Education, provides an accounting of… Read more: ‘School Choice’ Does Not Provide Better Education for All Families -
A More Humane Way to Strengthen Public Schools: Invest in Teachers’ Wellbeing
Dr. Ameila Wheeler, Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Instruction – A few years ago, Public Schools First North Carolina invited me to participate in a Teacher Appreciation Week webinar about what it would mean to really appreciate teachers. That question has stayed with me. Celebrations, kind notes, and snacks in the faculty lounge can be genuinely… Read more: A More Humane Way to Strengthen Public Schools: Invest in Teachers’ Wellbeing -
They call it school choice. For my daughter, there is no choice
By Lissette Fernandez, co-founder of Moms for Libros – My daughter’s introduction to school was online, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. She started pre-K meeting her teacher and classmates on a computer screen. This was not fun for her or for me — but the alternative of sending her to school in the… Read more: They call it school choice. For my daughter, there is no choice -
School Choice Is Only a Choice for Some
By Christy Cooper, mom to a public-school second grader with Down syndrome – When I was in elementary school, I asked my dad why he didn’t send me to private school. The only private school kids I knew came from well-to-do families, so those schools carried a prestige that I wanted. “Because I already pay… Read more: School Choice Is Only a Choice for Some -
Dear Elected Official, You Are Invited to My Son’s Next IEP Meeting (And While You Are At It, Spend a Day Following an EC Teacher)
By Stu Egan, a North Carolina English teacher – I believe every local elected official who has anything to do with public school funding should sit in on some IEP meetings – the tough ones where parents and schools struggle to find what is not only appropriate for the student, but how those needs will… Read more: Dear Elected Official, You Are Invited to My Son’s Next IEP Meeting (And While You Are At It, Spend a Day Following an EC Teacher)
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