Public Education Budgets at State and Federal Levels Leave K-12 Public...
I suspect you have not seen a lot of details about the budget for the U.S. Department of Education, part of the remaining FY 2024 federal budget that had to be passed by Congress over the weekend and...
View ArticleWill Untenable Voucher Expansion Threaten Public School Funding in Ohio?
The Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s Laura Hancock reports this week that the enormous expansion of EdChoice vouchers in Ohio will bring the state’s investment in its five private school tuition voucher...
View ArticleEducation Philanthropists Respond When Challenged to Increase Investment in...
The Schott Foundation for Public Education recently released Justice Is the Foundation, a new report that lifts up the need for increasing philanthropic support for racial justice in American public...
View ArticleOklahoma Supreme Court Justices Appear to Question Constitutionality of...
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the state of Oklahoma heard oral arguments in a case filed by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond versus the Oklahoma Virtual Charter School Board, which...
View ArticleToday’s Bitter Divide—in Our Society and in Our Public Schools
In America Has Legislated Itself into Competing Red, Blue Versions of Education, the Washington Post’s Hannah Natanson and her colleagues identify the growing divide between red states—whose...
View ArticleChicago Begins the Hard Work of Dismantling Neoliberal School Reform
Right now we are watching in real time as Chicago tries to figure out how to undo the consequences of a catastrophic, two-decades long experiment in marketplace school reform. Chicago’s Board of...
View ArticleHeritage Foundation Wants to Deny the Right to Public Schooling for...
I like to think I know enough about awful public policy that it would be hard to surprise me, but I confess that the beginning of Kalyn Belsha’s new report for Chalkbeat describes a politics so...
View ArticleWhat is White Christian Nationalism and How Is It Affecting Public Education...
Our politics and our national ethos seem to have gone awry, and a lot of people blame it on something called Christian nationalism or white Christian nationalism. And yet, the book bans, the efforts to...
View ArticleState Support for Pre-Kindergarten Is Another Victim As Vouchers Drain State...
Yesterday, the Ohio Capital Journal‘s Susan Tebben reported some troubling numbers about Ohio children’s access to early childhood education: “The National Institute for Early Education Research’s...
View ArticleHow Book Bans, Threats to Honest Teaching of History, and “Don’t Say Gay”...
Public schools, which serve more than 50 million of our nation’s children and adolescents are perhaps our society’s most important public institution. Unlike private schools, public schools guarantee...
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