Tell Congress: Act to Prevent Department of Education from Funneling COVID-19 Aid to Private Schools

From Education Voters of Pennsylvania (http://www.educationvoterspa.org/): Betsy DeVos—and members of Congress who do not take action to stop her—are in the process of looting PA public schools by taking federal funding away from the poorest students in the state in … Continued

Tell PA Lawmakers: Children Are More than Test Scores, Schools More than a Number

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From Education Voters of Pennsylvania (http://www.educationvoterspa.org/): On Tuesday, June 12, the PA Senate Education Committee considered Senate Bill 1198, legislation that would: Continue to mandate publicly labeling schools as successful or failing based primarily on students’ standardized test scores using … Continued

“Government Schools” vs. “Public Schools”

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Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/government-schools-vs-public-schools/ Last weekend, the NY Times published an important story by Julie Bosman about the political importance of how we name our institutions: “Kansas has for years been the stage for a messy school funding fight that has … Continued