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School Reform

When School Reform is Not Enough

In 2004, I graduated college and started teaching in New York City as a Teach For America (TFA) corps member. The experience challenged, changed, and inspired me. I was blown away by the magnitude of inequities present in the school where I taught...

school leadership

Schools Now Have Tons of Money. What Are They Doing With It?

I live in Lawrence, New Jersey—a middle-class, diverse town, halfway between Princeton and Trenton. For years I was on the school board and was very active in local governance, but over the years...

stimulus

Accountability for One Killer Cop Won't Protect Our Kids From the Systemic Harm They Face Daily

Here's where I am after all of the shit that went down this week ... Black people aren’t safe and will never have peace under this current system of “law enforcement” (I’ll tell y’all why I put that...

Achievement Gap

Here's Why Putting the Brakes on Charter Schools Is So 2020

Prior to COVID-19 upending American education, some state legislatures around the country considered moratoriums or “pauses” on public charter schools; while others, like in California, Illinois, and...

California

Parents, It's Way Past Time to Break Up With Traditional Education and School Funding

This pandemic is an opportunity to change not only how we educate children, but how we fund that education. Right now, school and district leaders are looking to Congress to save their budgets from...

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