I read an exchange on Twitter yesterday between Maggie Severns, an education reporter at Politico, and CJ Libassi, a researcher at the Education Policy Initiative, an organization committed to “applied, policy-relevant research for improved educational outcomes.” They were discussing my recent piece about Obama’s record on school integration. I was struck in particular by this […]
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Obama’s Mixed Record on School Integration
While a handful of small programs have taken steps toward promoting diversity, desegregation has remained absent from Obama’s signature education initiatives.Â
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Unionized Charter Teachers in Chicago Reject Merit Pay
Last week, unionized teachers at three schools operated by Civitas-a subsidiary of the Chicago International Charter School network-negotiated a new contract that no longer has merit pay in it. This means 31 out of 32 unionized Chicago charter schools have now rejected merit pay. And the one unionized charter that still has it-Rudy Lozano Leadership […]
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Using Tech to Improve Government
In the modern digital era, a growing number of individuals and organizations are trying to figure out how to harness technology to improve democracy. I have written previously about the Personal Democracy Forum-an annual conference of civic tech groups in New York City-and while these spaces can certainly give rise to overblown hype (think HBO’s […]
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NLRB Rules Teach for America Members Have a Right to Unionize
In another interesting development for the movement to unionize charter schools, the National Labor Relations Board ruled last week that Teach for America corps members should have been allowed to vote in a Detroit charter union election earlier this year. Detroit 90/90, a charter management organization for the University Prep charter network, said that Teach […]
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Ohio Charter Teachers Fired for Organizing Will Be Reinstated
Teachers at the Ohio-based I CAN charter network decided to organize a union during the 2013-2014 school year. Yet when the school year ended, the administration did not renew contracts for seven teachers leading the union drive-resulting in a cancellation of the scheduled union vote. While about 40 charter schools in Ohio are already unionized, […]
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In Latest Adjunct Organizing Victory, Barnard Faculty Plan to Unionize
More than 230 contingent faculty members at Barnard College will be able to vote to form a union with the United Auto Workers Local 2110 this September, according to an announcement today. Last month, contingent faculty filed for a union with the NLRB after the UAW said more than two-thirds of contingents had petitioned in […]
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More on Charters Going Union
For The Prospect‘s summer issue I wrote a feature story about the growing number of charter school teachers looking to form unions at their schools. Elias Isquith, a staff writer at Salon was kind enough to interview me about my piece. We talked about some things I covered in the story, and a few other […]
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How Will Campbell Brown’s ’74’ Cover Education?
Today marked the launch of The 74, an education-focused news organization created by former CNN host Campbell Brown. (The title refers to the 74 million school-age children in the U.S.) The education community is cautiously waiting to determine how the site’s content should be judged. Funded solely by philanthropies-Bloomberg and the Walton Family Foundation among […]
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Betrayers of the Dream
How sleazy for-profit colleges disproportionately targeted black students.
