There’s a scene in last year’s documentary by Lilly Rivlin, Heather Booth: Changing the World, in which Heather and Paul Booth discuss how they met at an anti-war sit-in at the University of Chicago’s administration building in 1966. “The sit-in
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(This piece first appeared in Capital and Main) The 25-year national gamble on charter schools has been a losing bet, resulting in a series of missed opportunities and creating a tragic distraction from what most education researchers agree are the
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Providence St. Joseph Health, the third largest not-for-profit healthcare conglomerate in the country, annual revenue $20 billion v. NUHW Here is the story of David v. Goliath, again; the story now commonplace as hospitals and health care providers consolidate and
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On Tuesday, August 22, IBEW 1245 members from across the public sector packed Weakley Hall to learn about the growing attack on public sector unions and IBEW 1245’s strategy to defend and build our house through Volunteer Organizing Committees (VOC)
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(This piece first appeared in Capital and Main) It should have been a cakewalk. Instead, Steve Zimmer, the progressive school board president of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), who was running for his third term and enjoyed the
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(This piece first appeared in the Diane Ravitch’s Blog) Laura Chapman discovered the list of staff hired to work at the U.S. Department of Education. All of the appointments to date are political cronies of Trump or DeVos. None of
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Brett Bymaster, a Silicon Valley electrical engineer, was optimistic when Rocketship Education, a non-profit charter school chain, began building its flagship Mateo Sheedy elementary school next to his San Jose home in 2007. He and his family lived in a
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Aimee Roylance was thrilled when her son was accepted into Livermore Valley Charter School in 2010. The traditional public schools in their part of the Bay Area were cash-strapped and struggling, and the K-8 charter school, with a waiting list
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