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Three-Part Series Fact-Checking LAUSD School Board District 4 “Facts,” Part I

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by Miriam Efrat. First in a three part series. Read Part II here, and Part III here. Dear Voters of LAUSD Board District 4: Are you a progressive recently woke to the vital need for accountable leadership in public education?  Just someone who likes to be well-informed before casting a vote? I hear your mailboxes […]

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Community Schools At The Margins Of Current ESEA Reauthorization Debates: Center Them In Bernie Sanders’ Presidential Education Platform

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Right this very moment in the U.S. Senate, Senators are debating amendments being offered to the Senate-side bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, the current version commonly referred to as No Child Left Behind). Given that we have a sitting Senator (Bernie Sanders, I-VT) involved in the process and a past […]

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For many families choosing high schools, it's either magnet or charter

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By thenotebook by Kevin McCorry for NewsWorks Chrislie Dor, a budding poet at age 14, stands like Frost’s narrator at a fork in the road. The paths diverge not in a yellow wood, but instead the concrete jungle that is Philadelphia public education. Looking down one bend as far as she can, Chrislie sees the […]

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