Do not discount the voices of young people. #HomeroomOnHulu (premieres Aug 12) follows Oakland High School’s class of 2020 through a year of pandemic and growing demands for systemic change.
"In their assault on public education, the network has taken actions to increasingly privatize and corporatize K-12 institutions."
Charter schools don’t improve education outcomes. But they do funnel taxpayer money into the pockets of unscrupulous — often criminal — school operators. It’s a national disgrace that needs to end.
If our budget passes, it would be one of the most important pieces of legislation since the New Deal. But we must fight for it.
A world unraveling amid smoke and death and how one teacher and her students dealt with it. The pandemic served as a stark reminder of at least two things: that the nuclear family is not enough and that schools can’t be its sole safety net.
What appears to be a dispute about academics is really a political tactic in the ongoing campaign to privatize public schools.
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The public investment deficit is the gap between what we should be investing in our future — on infrastructure, education, and basic research — and the relatively little we are investing.
Schools are making the hybrid learning plan work as best they can, but our teachers are likely not okay. They are getting the work done—but their physical, emotional, and mental health may be suffering in the process.
On Nov. 3, voters in many states and cities approved a variety of inequality-related proposals, from taxing the wealthy to increasing the minimum wage and tenant protections.
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