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January 27, 2023
David Marques
Conservatives: “School Choice” Will Punish Public Schools for Wokeness
It’s National School Choice Week, the annual right-wing campaign against public education and teachers’ unions. But this year, its supporters are making a new argument.
May 31, 2022
Magazine
Laura Jedeed
Moms for Liberty Has Created Nightmares for Schools Across the Country
The group of parents has injected conservative politics into classrooms and reshaped the 2022 midterms.
May 20, 2022
Magazine
Win McCormack
In Search of the Common Good
You won’t find it in the tenets of neoliberalism.
May 2, 2022
Stephen Noonoo
The Mental Health Crisis That’s Causing Teachers to Quit
“Every minute I wasn’t with the kids, personally, I was beyond treading water with my mental health. I was just drowning.”
September 30, 2021
Kathryn Joyce
Republicans Don’t Want to Reform Public Education. They Want to End It.
Florida’s recent struggles over masks in schools augur a terrifying shift in the right’s approach to education policy.
August 17, 2021
Rachel M. Cohen
New School Year, Same Old Covid Chaos
A highly contagious variant, quarantines, closures, and fast-changing rules: It was supposed to be a calm fall, but we’re looking at a new year that could look a lot like the last.
July 14, 2021
Esther Wang
Angry White Parents Are Once Again Winning the Battle for the American Classroom
Classes are being canceled, and teachers are being fired, as “anti–critical race theory” fights are coming to a head in Republican states. But the viral school board videos are only part of the story.
October 19, 2020
Daniel Rivera
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Katie McDonough
I’m a Cleaner at a New York City Public School. The Pandemic Has Thrown My Plans Out the Window.
“It’s almost as if we’re guinea pigs in some way.”
May 13, 2020
Annie Abrams
A Privatization Fever Dream for Post-Crisis Public Education
Millions of students are now learning from home, and pro-charter, anti-teacher forces are trying to seize the moment.
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