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Dismantling Ed Dept. Will Harm More Than 26 Million Kids — and America’s Future

Flores: Students in poverty & rural areas, kids with disabilities, English learners and homeless children will all suffer without federal protections.

Yolie Flores
Author: Yolie Flores
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Teaching Students Why Cinco de Mayo Matters for Our Democracy

Otheguy: Students should understand the history of the Mexican fight for freedom and how it influenced our own.

Emma Otheguy
Author: Emma Otheguy
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Supreme Court Must Not Undermine Public Education in Religious Charter Case

Johnson: Breaking wall between public and religious schools could mean an end to charters and their commitment to educational access for every student

Ariel Johnson
Author: Ariel Johnson
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States Should Support Religious Education — But Not Through Charter Schools

Petrilli: Supreme Court has a way to mandate some state backing of religious schools and avoid disruption of a 30-year-old charter school sector.

Michael J. Petrilli
Author: Michael J. Petrilli
Opinion

Tucker Haynes: Why Should Tax Dollars Go to Schools Designed to Segregate?

Cynthia Tucker Haynes
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Analysis: In Newark’s Election of a New School Board, a Superficial ‘Unity’

Laura Waters
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O’Keefe & Rotherham: Why Underground Testing Consortia Are Thriving

Andrew J. Rotherham & Bonnie O’Keefe
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A Parent’s Perspective: For My Son Kevin, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Wasn’t Enough

Ana Garcia
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Ortega: With Anti-Trump Democrats Giving Up on Education Reform, States Will Have to Take the Lead

Israel Ortega
Personalized Learning

Lake: Are We Personalizing Learning for the Students Who Need It Most?

Robin Lake
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Kane: States and Governors Must Collaborate as They Again Learn to Drive Education Under ESSA

Thomas J. Kane
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Opinion: How to Extend the Reach of Great Teachers in Turnaround (or Any) Schools

Erin A. Burns
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Analysis: Assessing 22 Years of State Control as Newark Votes for the Board to Take Back Reins of City Schools

Laura Waters
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Analysis: How Trump’s Budget Cuts Could Harm Communities and Students in Washington, D.C.

Karen Gardner
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Sanzi: Rhode Island Gets Serious About School Standards, Adopts Massachusetts’s Tests

Erika Sanzi
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Analysis: A May Day March to ‘Reclaim Schools’ — Previewing Teachers Unions’ Day of ‘Action’

Mike Antonucci
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Berner: How School Culture Drives Civic Knowledge and Shapes the Next Generation of Citizens

Ashley Berner
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Pennington & Rotherham: Why California’s Bid to Kill Income Tax for Teachers Is a Terrible Idea

Andrew J. Rotherham & Kaitlin Pennington
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Braimah: 3 Ways to Think About School Choice Through the Lens of Equity and Diversity

Valerie Braimah
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Hyslop: How the Every Student Succeeds Act Empowers States to Find Innovative Uses for Federal Funds

Anne Hyslop
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Gray & Petrilli: 3 Ways That States Can Improve Low-Performing Schools Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

The 74
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Hage & Tuthill: Private, Charter, Voucher—When School Reformers Unite to Give Families Diverse Choices, Kids Win

Jonathan Hage & Doug Tuthill
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Williams: It’s Not What Trump’s Education Department Will Do That Should Worry Critics; It’s What It Won’t Do

Conor P. Williams
Union Report

Exclusive — The California Teachers Association Has a Whole Lot of Money to Burn: Here’s How It Spends It

Mike Antonucci
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