INTRODUCTION In an article published by the National Education Policy Center, (NEPC) Lawrence Blum analyzes what occurred in the November 2016 election in Massachusetts when voters decisively defeated a referendum, funded by corporate backers of charter schools and privatization. The measure would have significantly increased the number of charter schools in the state and was […]
Month: March 2019
Policy Brief-Developing and Sustaining Mutually Respectful Alliances Between Social Justice Activists in Communities of Color and Transformed Teachers Unions
SUMMARY Currently teachers unions and education activists in communities of color in cities are often at odds about reforms that are enacted in the name of equalizing educational opportunity. Yet, each group has resources the other lacks and they share many common aims. Working together they might achieve considerably more than either can alone, especially […]
