Charter Schools
As Cities Drop Remote Learning, Some Families Want It Back
It’s no secret that the phrase “remote learning” is synonymous with frustration for many families who have been dealing with Zoom class horror stories and Google project pandemonium for over a year....
CRT
Award-Winning Educators Call on States to Halt Bans on Critical Race Theory
As award-winning elementary and secondary school educators, we seek to ensure that our students receive an excellent education, to advance our students’ skills, knowledge, and motivation to succeed...
CRT
Three (Ignorant) Arguments Used to Ban Critical Race Theory
To understand the legislative attacks on Critical Race Theory (CRT) that aim to make teaching CRT in schools—including concepts like white supremacy, systemic racism, and the like—illegal, don’t get...
CRT
We Will Not Shy Away From Teaching Our History
During their senior year, all scholars at all of Democracy Prep’s schools take a rigorous year-long course called Sociology of Change. For the first half of the year, our scholars study...
equity
We Don't Have to Wait for Permission to Create Restorative Model Schools
If our goal is to uproot the systemic racism and other prejudices that live within the structure of our educational system and in every school building, then we must move to make deep changes in many...
CRT
All This Performative Pettiness in Activism Diminishes Our Collective Power
*In my Principal Joe Clark voice* I need all of the Black education activists to join me in a church basement conversation, expeditiously! I’m not liking what I’m seeing on social media, y’all. To be...