Our Schools Project
Our Schools reports on efforts to undermine the public education system in the U.S. and how communities are fighting back against the privatization agenda.
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Experts call for cultivating better student relationships and providing families with more supports—exactly what the community schools approach is all about.
It’s no coincidence that many states that have passed new laws forbidding the teaching of “divisive” topics are the same ones undermining and privatizing public schools.
A destructive voucher program drained the state of millions of education dollars.
A district in the Washington, D.C., suburbs shows how a transformative approach to school improvement can address longstanding opportunity gaps in education.
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|#rownumber=5}}The transformative approach to school improvement is a catalyst for community revival.
An approach to transformative school improvement challenges existing education models.
DeVos’s divisive tenure as U.S. secretary of education under the Trump administration will have repercussions for decades to come.
A 2022 study warns that career and technical education and advanced digital systems increasingly lock children into narrow school curricula and prescribed workplace futures.
Charter school funders like Eli Broad turned school leadership into a cartel system focused on advancing careers and enriching businesses.
Former teachers and board members say charters run by Accel Schools are designed to fail.
Our Schools goes to the front lines of the nationwide effort to privatize and undermine the public education system. It exposes the false promises of charter schools, voucher programs, and corporate-style reforms and spotlights how communities are fighting back and often succeeding against the school privatization agenda.
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Jeff Bryant is a writing fellow and chief correspondent for Our Schools. He is a communications consultant, freelance writer, advocacy journalist, and director of the Education Opportunity Network.
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