The parent trigger has been relentlessly marketed to parents and policy makers as an “empowerment” that enables parents to conduct a petition campaign in their community to fire their school’s staff and change its governance. This has all the rhetoric of democratic activism – a majority of the parents deciding “what’s best” for the education […]
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Charter Schools and the Future of Public Educati...
Long-time educator and New Jersey Education Association Director Stan Karp explains why “it’s time to refocus public policy on providing excellent public schools for all.” According to Education Week, there are now more than 6,000 publicly funded charter schools in the United States enrolling about 4 percent of all students. Since 2008, the number of charter schools […]
Teachers Make Handy Scapegoats, But Spiraling Inequality Is Really What Ails Our Education Syst...
Stanford University scholar Linda Darling-Hammond explains the connection. No shortage of ink had been put to paper pondering what it is that ails America’s education system. We know that, on average, our kids’ educational outcomes lag behind those of other wealthy countries, but why is that? But one of the core problems, if not the core problem, […]
Supreme Court to Hear Pre-K Access Ca...
The North Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to determine whether the state can deny at-risk children access to public pre-kindergarten programs. Superior Court Judge Howard Manning in 2011 threw out legislative changes to the early childhood education program that limited access and required parents to pick up part of the cost. He ruled that North […]