Any time someone starts talking about the free market in K-12 education I immediately know that they don’t know what they are talking about.  And as a hack economist myself, I know that public education is nothing like a free market—for good reason. Stick with me. There is no “free market” Economists like competitive markets…

Hear from students on how they experienced the strike, look at the costs and benefits and also the lived experiences of students in terms of school quality. Please read and share this important report from our partners at Energy Convertors and the State of Black Education in Oakland (SoBEO). Some excerpts are below, read the…

The recent rallies and counterrallies in Sacramento around charter schools, physically mirrored what the recent national polling shows.   There, you saw parades of apparently mostly White, and certainly not majority Black and Brown teachers marching against charters, while largely Black charter families protested to keep the limited choices they have. It’s a weird juxtaposition, the…

Love the work these folks are doing at Bunche and had the honor of recently meeting Principal Rhynes. Hear here story and take a look at this beautiful graduation.

All the news from last week, more on budget cuts, graduations are starting, a great feature on the Opportunity Ticket, looking at graduation rates, updates on the charter legislation, rats at Mack, the Supe breaks down space sharing and the law, the importance of Black teachers, tax hikes on the horizon for education? all that…