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equity

Back To The Same Old Dusty, Rigid School System — So Families Are Opting Out

We’re back in a new school year, and I’m struck by how let down Black and brown students and communities have been in recent years. Let me explain. Promises were made to Black and brown children...

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Charter Schools

Educational Inequity Is a Matter of Civil Rights in 2024

"You know very well who you are Don’t let ‘em hold you down Reach for the stars" —Notorious BIG When I first decided to become a teacher, I was a junior at Rutgers University. I remember realizing...

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School Choice

Education Department Debate Is About Creating Anti-LGBTQ+ Worldview

Fact: MAGA Republicans want to abolish the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). It’s one of the few items on the to-do list of Trump’s Agenda 47 and the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 (AKA “Agenda...

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Diversity

DEI Is The New N-Word

The terms/acronyms “woke,” “DEI,” and “CRT” are used in a derogatory way, interchangeably, as a coded language to signify or designate a Black person as either Black or the N-word. Political...

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equity

Beware of the “Rayguns” Breaking Things in the Nonprofit Sector

The memes, reenactment reels, and jokes are coming in with Lylesian speed after Rachael “Raygun” Gunn’s breaking routine for Team Australia during the 2024 Paris Olympics. Her B-girl performance —...

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Diversity

DEI Is The Boogeyman Of Far Right Fairytales, But What Is It In Real Life?

To hear some MAGA folks talk about DEI sounds a lot like the scene in the first John Wick movie when Viggo explains to his son why they liken the unstoppable assassin to the mythical creature Baba...

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