By Wornie Reed, Ph.D.
The march toward privatization of public schools is long and relentless. I date it from the famous article by the conservative...
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) issued the following statement in response to the Senate confirmation of billionaire public education novice Betsy DeVos as U.S. Secretary of Education: “Choosing Betsy DeVos to lead the Department of Education was one of the first in what will surely be a series of horrific decisions made by the Trump […]
The nation’s first charter school strike could happen here in Chicago as early as Oct. 19. The United Educators of UNO (UEU), which represents teachers and support staff in Chicago’s 15-school UNO Charter School Network, has been negotiating with the network for over seven months on issues such as class size and management demands on […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo’s chronically struggling school system is considering an idea gaining momentum in other cities: public boarding schools that put round-the-clock attention…
*Symone Greene, a 22-year-old woman who was hired to fill in for the planned absence of an English teacher at a D. C. Charter school is in a whole lot of trouble today. She has been charged with allegedly having sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old student in the classroom. The student admits to flirting with […]
*The focus has been intense on the wildly disproportionate number of black students who are suspended or expelled from America’s public schools. But what has flown quietly under the radar scope is the even more wildly disproportionate number of black students who are arrested on high school and even elementary school campuses for alleged behavior […]
