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School Boards Have Too Much Power They Aren’t Using to Fix Education
Considered me triggered. Again. This past Sunday my 8 Black Hands crew did a show on the missing importance of school boards, and then this article pops up
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Last March schools across the country closed and typical live instruction morphed into erratic meetings on Zoom. Many of us assumed this was a short-term s
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Much of the public discussion about pandemic education has focused on two major questions: How are families handling remote learning? What does safe reopen
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Now would be a good time to listen to Rev. Al Sharpton. You didn’t see that coming. Me, of all people, pointing to a left-of-center Civil Rights leader on
Read MoreVote Local Day 5: Care About Schools? Vote Local. (ft. Alina Adams)
https://www.facebook.com/246491525549550/videos/3437224209696920 Yes, there is a big national election happening. But if you really want to improve policy
Read MoreI Thought Vouchers Were Wrong, But Now I Realize They Helped My Son
Recently I wrote that a residency hearing with two children, Kayla and Tasha, represented to me our deeply-embedded structural inequities in education that
Read MoreKhaliah Fitchett on Going From Handcuffs to Running for Congress
One afternoon in March 2010, Khaliah Fitchette, a 16-year-old student at Newark’s University High School, was riding home on a NJ Transit bus with her frie
Read MoreVote Local Day 4: Can You Trust Parties and Politicians? (ft. Zakiya Sankara-Jabar)
https://www.facebook.com/246491525549550/videos/1278683725823697 In a politically polarized nation, public trust in government is on the decline. How do we
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