Julian Vasquez Heilig is a professor at California State University Sacramento. and West Coast Regional Progressive Education Fellow. He blogs about education and social justice at Cloaking Inequity.
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Julian Vasquez Heilig
The Real Scandal Over Buying an Education
Wealthy parents have been arrested for lavishing millions on a college admissions scam. But inequality in school funding is baked into our system. Read more
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The Tide May Be Turning on Billionaire Backers of Charter Schools in California
California’s new superintendent of public instruction, Tony Thurmond, opposes the privatization of education. Read more
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California Just Banned For-Profit Charter Schools. Why?
Given the state's history with “school choice,” California’s new legislation comes as a surprise. And it’s met with skepticism. Read more
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How College Campuses Can Uphold Free Speech AND Shut Down Racists
Invite white nationalist speakers to campus. Provoke student pushback. Get labeled the “violent left.” There’s another way. Read more
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With Charter Schools, A Step Back to Segregation
Decades of research shows that charters are racially isolating America’s students Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
School Choice: The Controversial Debate
Education Fellow Julian Vasquez Heilig debates the proposition that “choice is essential to improving education in the United States” at the Better Chicago Education Summit 2017 Read more
What You Should Know about School Vouchers
School vouchers rob Peter Public School to pay Paul Private School. Read more
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Eight Questions Betsy DeVos Won't Get Right about School Vouchers
Donald Trump and Betsy Devos are enamored with school vouchers. Their commitment persists despite the idea's sordid racial history, opposition from the civil rights community, constitutional problems, and proof that vouchers don't help students. Read more
Five Questions You Should Ask about Secretary of Education Nominee Betsy DeVos
The nominee, who has never been a classroom teacher and never attended a public school, pushes policies that create lots of choice, with no good choice. Read more
Education Activists Converge on Presidential Debate
Clinton and Trump may not have much to say on the subject, but equal access to education is a crucial to our democracy Read more
10 Things to Know about the Charter School Debate
The nation’s oldest and the youngest civil rights organizations have passed resolutions critical of charter schools. Read more
Pence No Friend to Public Schools, Minorities
His policies as governor starved Indiana's public schools of funding. Read more
What other Universities Should Learn from UT
Not discussed in the current ruling, is that Fisher did not fall below a bright line by which Whites were rejected and minorities admitted. Read more
How a Grassroots Revolt Against Testing May Change Education
Photo by Greg Dunkel A revolt involving hundreds of thousands of Americans against the federal and state government has been brewing over the past couple of years. What caused this grassroots revolt? Parents and students have had enough of hig... Read more
Most State Education Report Cards Miss the Critical Ingredients
Why state education report cards are like cookies. Read more
Puerto Rico's School Crisis
A day strike by thousands of teachers across the island of Puerto Rico on Tuesday demonstrated the intensity of their concern about the new regime. Read more
Why The Democratic Presidential Debate Ignored Education
Perhaps the Democrats are not discussing education because they don’t want to be accused of plagiarism by the Republican Party. Read more
Parents Risk Dying for Dyett and Neighborhood Public Schools
Parents and community members are entering the fourth week of a hunger strike in Chicago. While the issues may seem at first glance specific to Dyett High School, the protest is really about the top-down, private control school reform. Read more
