Happy Friday to you! Pull up a seat, it’s time to dive into some education news with the Oakland Ed Week in Review! This is a Dirk favorite and one of the last blogs he published for Great School Voices. Here’s what we have going on this week: lots of election coverage as the District…
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A History Lesson for Randi on Black Education in America
America’s system of education was built for racial dominance. Anyone who actually studies history knows that. So it was curious to read the Times article “Teachers Union Chief; School Choice Rooted in Segregation” this week, where AFT president Randi Weingarten singled out “school choice” for its purported racist roots, when a more accurate title really…
Judging Charters and Unions on Results
I am officially agnostic, on charter schools and unions. Not the combination of the two but each individually. We need to judge charters by their results on both quality and equity and we need to do the same for unions. That was the gist of my relatively recent comments in NOLA at the Education Research…
Unions and Charters, Can We Get Along?
As a charter school board chair it was a jarring call. “The teachers are unionizing, they have the votes” the school leader’s voice rattled on the other end. This call would start a long journey, that would change some of my thinking on unionized charters, and I hope eventually change the minds of the union…