public schools

In many ways, the election seems like a lifetime ago. I recall that the weather on the weekend before election day was gorgeous. I was lucky enough to atte

If you want to kill a good idea just set impossible conditions for its success and it will die trying to meet them. That’s the apparent strategy behind the

It’s not easy being a political progressive and a charter school supporter. In these polarized times, it’s easy to forget how many of us support great publ

Last year, during my senior year at IDEA Quest College Preparatory in Edinburg, Texas, I asked my brother, Danny, where I should apply to college. “Princet

Oakland blogger Dirk Tillotson wrote this provocative piece suggesting that unions and charters could actually be good for each other. Currently, about 12

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) will soon make a decision that will either allow it to leverage itself as a true champion for racial integration or affirm its

In ratifying a resolution to issue a moratorium on charter schools, the NAACP—despite its storied history of defending the civil rights of Black and Brown

The school choice debate has perhaps never been more central to the national conversation than right now. With the NAACP’s recent call for a moratorium on

Dear America, We must do better. After too many highly-publicized murders of Black men at the hands of police, I am reminded of how much further we have to