Charter Schools
White Progressives Have a Lot of Work to Do, and I’m Not Here to Help
When I ran for school board it was the former Minneapolis mayor who was the first elected official to endorse me. She asked me a lot of questions, offered some straight talk about the political...
School Funding
Award-Winning Teachers Demand 4 Anti-Racist Policies to Ensure Schools Are a Place of Liberation
As educators, and also as community members, parents, and learners, the undersigned 2018 Teachers of the Year, rise in solidarity with Black Lives Matter against racism and hate. We mourn with our...
Achievement Gap
Let's Focus on Our Students' Health and Humanity, Not on 'Getting Back to Normal'
Jessica N. Ewalt, Ph.D., is an educator in the Gwinnett County Public School system. Her research focuses on the implications of critical race theory in high school social studies classrooms. Matthew...
bias
Black Girls Need Police-Free Schools
We are at a precipice. Advocates and school leaders in nearly 100 districts all over the country have called for the removal of police in schools as a means to disrupt the ever-expanding...
California
Parents, It's Way Past Time to Break Up With Traditional Education and School Funding
This pandemic is an opportunity to change not only how we educate children, but how we fund that education. Right now, school and district leaders are looking to Congress to save their budgets from...
bias
Q&A: 12-Year-Old Amir Lumumba on Why Schools Need More Counselors and Fewer Cops
On Thursday, July 9 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. ET, brightbeam’s Director of Activism, Zakiya Sankara-Jabar will moderate a virtual town hall called #ReimagingingSchoolSafety. Special guests include: Amir...