Stories

California

Scandals Don't Just Happen in Politics, They Also Take Place In Our Classrooms

New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles: These cities and countless others across the United States have dealt with scandals involving their public school systems over the...

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California

Our Schools Need Edu-Philanthropy’s Dollars and Its Policy Priorities

Is there a meaningful role for philanthropy in our push to improve our public schools? While we may think the answer is a simple one, the Los Angeles Times recently called it into question,...

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School Funding

Let’s Stop Debating and Make Sure That Low-Income Students Get Equitable Funding

A couple of weeks ago, we published a piece on Money and Schools from blogger Dmitri Melhorn, below Ben Spielberg has written a response to criticisms of school funding. On average, students from...

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Charter Schools

It’s Time to Give Charter Schools Equitable Funding

This year’s National Charter Schools Week is an especially poignant celebration as many states are reaching 20th and 25th anniversaries of their charter school laws (our state of Connecticut...

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Poverty

Look, I'm Not the Enemy But Investing in Education Without Accountability Just Doesn't Work

My recent visit to the Network for Public Education’s annual conference in North Carolina has yielded much fruit. In addition to an extended blog conversation with Peter Greene on the topic of...

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School Funding

Will We Still Do Right by Kids When the Money Runs Out?

Over the last couple of decades we have seen a parade of federal education reforms— No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, the Every Student Succeeds Act, among others—followed by a circuitous parade...

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