Choosing Democracy

by Jeff Bryant When President Barak Obama, in his State of the Union address, called for a  “year of action,”  he probably didn’t have th...

Larry Ferlazzo Vergara v. California is a carefully-watched court case that begins next week that attempts to eliminate fundamental teac...

This Week In Education: Thompson: What Is the Real Intent of Vergara v. California?

Infographic: Why Corporations Want Our Public Schools by YES! Editors — YES! Magazine

Many California school districts are rushing to spend money to add computers and internet access to schools in order to prepare students t...

Al Baker The Common Core has been applauded by education leaders and promoted by the Obama administration as a way to replace a hodgepodge...

By Jeff Bryant Government funding for public schools has been cut so dramatically that now most states are funding schools less than be...

StudentsFirst forming small donor campaign fund for local, state elections

James Meredith. by Valerie Straus. The Answer Sheet.   Washington Post Calling modern school reform “catastrophically misguided and ...

 NCLB reaches 12 years.   Is it still an operative law? Under   the No Child Left Behind   law (Public Law 107-110, 2001) 100 % of   stu...

Spending Per Student Increases, Nearly Returning to the Pre-Recession Level – California Budget Project California’s public schools serv...

New Jersey’s Education Cerf-dumb » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

by Jeff Bryant Everyone loves “choice,” right? In a country where in a single year there are more than  100 new choices for what to use...

State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Reports California Sees Significant Drops in Student Suspensions and Expulsions SACRAMENTO—The number...

By Duane Campbell Julie Watson of The Associated Press reports today in the Sacramento Bee that   nine public school students are suing ...

by Duane Campbell When young people don’t vote. The “Policy Experts”   Just Don’t Get It I watched the Public Policy Institute   Sacram...

Jack Rothman. Co-authored by Amy Rothman, psychotherapist and mediator in Los Angeles   American education just received another bea...

By Stan Karp This is a revised version of a talk on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) delivered in Portland, Oregon, Sept. 20, 20...