Starving America’s Public Schools


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Starving The Schools Of The 99%

By Jeff Bryant
October 19, 2011

Last week's release of the report Starving America's Schools: How Budget Cuts and Policy Mandates Are Hurting Our Nation's Students set the stage for this week's chorus line calling for the U.S. Senate to pass a bill to fund teachers' jobs across the country. more »

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Starving America’s Public Schools

By Robert Borosage
October 13, 2011

Wall Street’s excesses blew up the economy.  Now the question is who pays to clean up the mess. more »

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House Conservatives Charter Ideology Over Educational Reality

By Isaiah J. Poole
September 8, 2011

The House is poised to vote on legislation that would increase federal support for charter schools and would encourage states to authorize new charter schools. The "Empowering Parents through Quality Charter Schools Act" represents the latest triumph of ideology over reality in public education. more »

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Back To School: Investing In Distraction

By Jeff Bryant
September 7, 2011

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Back To School: The Vain Search For The Right 'Formula' For Education

By Jeff Bryant
September 6, 2011

Much in the same way that September ushers in a new football season every year regaled by a bombast of armchair quarterbacks analyzing "the game," the month also brings on yet another Back to School Season with a chorus of commentators declaring their prescriptions to "fix our schools." Unfortunately, too often the rhetoric of these two orations sounds an awful lot alike. more »

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Shortchanged by the Bell

By Luis A. Ubiñas and Chris Gabrieli
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August 23rd, 2011

nytimes.com — After a summer of budget cuts in Washington and state capitals, we have only to look to our schools, when classes begin in the next few weeks, to see who will pay the price. The minimum required school day in West Virginia is already about the length of a “Harry Potter” double feature. In Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Milwaukee, summer school programs are being slashed or eliminated. In Oregon and California this year, students will spend fewer days in the classroom; in rural communities from New Mexico to Idaho, some students will be in school only four days a week. For all the talk about balancing the budget for the sake of our children, keeping classrooms closed is a perverse way of giving them a brighter future.

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Today's Big Idea To Get America Working: Invest In Public Education

By Jeff Bryant
August 17, 2011

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You Can't Waive The Reality Of Our Public Schools

By Jeff Bryant
August 11, 2011

So much for the "New Washington Consensus on Education". more »

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Save Our Schools March About The Soul Of Education

By Jeff Bryant
August 1, 2011

If aliens from another planet landed in the U.S. this weekend they would likely assume that the people inhabiting this place are completely obsessed with one thing and one thing only: money. more »

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Where Is The 'Middle Ground' In The Education Debate?

By Jeff Bryant
July 20, 2011

By the time that July slips slowly off the calendar, events this month -- culminating with an upcoming teacher/parent-organized march on the nation's capital -- will have clarified all too well the lay of the land in the debate on the fate of our nation's public schools. more »

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