The fight for civil rights and empowerment didn’t happen overnight, but rather one lunch counter at a time, reminds reverend H.K. Matthews in an editorial supporting the new Alabama Accountability Act.
The Justice System petitioned a judge to stop Louisiana’s voucher program in thirty-plus districts operating under federal desegregation orders. This move is folly—and could have major implications for other modes of choice, including charter schools.
Original recipe? The newly created Kentucky Charter Schools Association, along with the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Democrats for Education Reform, the Black Alliance for Education Options and senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul are teaming up to bring charter schools to the Bluegrass State.
The teachers union in Mexico has “wreaked chaos” in the nation’s capital, “blockading roads and setting up a tent city in the city's colossal main square” to protest recent education reforms, writes the Wall Street Journal.
Former Chicago public schools chief J.C. Brizard is making headlines in Chicago again—this time for a By the Company It Keeps interview with Andy Smarick, where Brizard says he underestimated the power of the teachers union and calls Rahm Emanuel a micromanager.
The Onion takes on Teacher For America and asks for real teachers who have “an honest-to-God degree in education and not a twentysomething English graduate trying to bolster a middling GPA and a sparse law school application.” Required reading for The Onion staff includes NCTQ’s Teacher Prep Review 2013.
