Public School Shakedown
Latest from the Public School Shakedown
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SupportPDX
Going Hungry on Campus: Students and States Turn to Food Stamps
Soaring college costs force many to go without food or seek government assistance. more
Aug 16, 2017
2:36 PM
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How Online Charter Schools Hurt Small Town America
Cyber schools drain rural districts of much needed funds, do a lousy job of educating, and use taxpayer dollars to advertise. more
Aug 7, 2017
12:27 PM
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Daniel Case
Is Back-to-School Season More Expensive? Yes, and Here’s Why.
Teachers spend an average of almost $500 a year out of their own pockets on school supplies, and one in ten spend $1,000 or more. more
Aug 3, 2017
11:36 AM
About the Public School Shakedown
A fundamental struggle for democracy is going on around the country, as a handful of wealthy individuals and foundations pour money into efforts to privatize the public schools. The Public School Shakedown pulls back the curtain and reveals what is at stake. We follow the money, expose the privatizers, and report on the resistance and the hard work of people on the front lines of public education.
SupportPDX
Going Hungry on Campus: Students and States Turn to Food Stamps
Soaring college costs force many to go without food or seek government assistance. more
Aug 16, 2017
Evenjk
St. Paul High School Teacher to Macalester College: Pay Your Taxes
Agonizing over public school budget woes, a teacher takes on an unexpected target. more
Aug 9, 2017
How Online Charter Schools Hurt Small Town America
Cyber schools drain rural districts of much needed funds, do a lousy job of educating, and use taxpayer dollars to advertise. more
Aug 7, 2017
Daniel Case
Is Back-to-School Season More Expensive? Yes, and Here’s Why.
Teachers spend an average of almost $500 a year out of their own pockets on school supplies, and one in ten spend $1,000 or more. more
Aug 3, 2017
NAACP Seeks to Ban For-Profit Charter Schools and Increase Local Control
During the past decade, the number of students in charter schools has nearly tripled, with approximately 3.1 million enrolled in 2016-17. In fact, one in eight black students in the United States now attends a charter school. more
Jul 26, 2017
Ted Eytan
Betsy DeVos at ALEC: A Renewed Commitment to Turning Education into an Unregulated Marketplace
She said those who turned out to protest her appearance were nothing more than “defenders of the status quo,” bent on causing trouble for others—like ALEC members and DeVos—who are “capable of real change.” more
Jul 25, 2017
Gage Skidmore
Betsy DeVos Is Not My Secretary of Education
But let's be clear: at the root of DeVos’s approach is the devaluation and eventual abolition of the public sphere, which often goes together with tax cuts for the wealthy. more
Jul 24, 2017
Ohio’s Online Charter Scandal Is a Warning to the Nation
And a reminder of the importance of an independent press. more
Jul 14, 2017
An Insider's View of Charter Schools: Who Is Working Together to Improve Them?
While the popularity of charters is growing, so is concern about charter schools, particularly in the civil rights community and among grassroots educators in teachers unions. more
Jul 7, 2017
Gage Skidmore
Four Things Betsy DeVos Doesn’t Want You to Know about Education Tax Credits
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is a big fan. more
Jun 30, 2017
TeroVesalainen
In Virginia primary, Democrats Get a Lesson: Being Progressive Means Supporting Public Schools
As Democrats struggle to find their footing in the Trump era, the primary for governor in Virginia shows how the party needs to evolve on the issue of education “reform.” more
Jun 23, 2017
What the Venice High School Student Walkout Teaches Us
We support cooperative education when it teaches our kids to go out and get work, but not to go out and make their community better. more
Jun 22, 2017
Trump and Devos Ignore Science, but This High School Teacher and His Students Embrace It
Most of my students have only deepened their commitment to do what Trump will not: honestly explore and enact how best to live on Earth. more
Jun 19, 2017
courtesy of Ashana Bigard
Confederate Statues Are Down in New Orleans, but Structural Racism Still Stands Tall in Our Schools
When Stalin's statues came down in Russia, it was because the people had toppled the system—not just a statue. We certainly cannot say the same thing about the system of racist oppression General E. Lee’s statue represented. more
Jun 7, 2017
Was the Most Expensive School Board Race in U.S. History Really All About the Money?
How Melvoin and his billionaire backers took the L.A. School Board election. more
Jun 5, 2017
The Progressive Education Fellows
Jeff Bryant
Director of the Education Opportunity Network and associate fellow at Campaign for America’s Future. more
Xian Franzinger Barrett, Chicago
Award-winning teacher in Chicago Public Schools and founding member of EduColor. more
Jennifer C. Berkshire, Boston
Journalist, blogger and cohost of the podcast 'Have You Heard,' about education in the time of Trump. more
Ashana Bigard, New Orleans
Social justice organizer, and advocate for children and families in Louisiana. more
Peter Greene, Pennsylvania Region
English teacher for a few years. Blogger at Curmudgucation. more
Jesse Hagopian, Seattle
History teacher at Garfield High in Seattle, and author of “More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing.” more
Julian Vasquez Heilig, Sacramento
Professor at California State University Sacramento and blogger at Cloaking Inequity. more
Sarah Lahm, Minneapolis
Minneapolis-based writer and former English instructor. She blogs at Bright Light Small City. more
Cynthia Liu, Los Angeles
Founder of K-12 News Network, watchdog, community organizer. more
Sabrina Joy Stevens, Washington, D.C.
Mother, writer, education advocate, and former teacher based in Washington, D.C. more
Dora Taylor, Seattle
Public ed advocate, founding member of Parents Across America, and author. more
Jose Luis Vilson, New York City
Math educator, blogger, speaker, and activist in New York City. more
