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The following is excerpted from Hostages No More: The Fight for Education Freedom and the Future of the American Child, published today by Center Street. The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 set off a racial reckoning in the United States. The issue of race and how it is perceived and experienced […]
Superintendent Linda Dwight has chosen the two new principals who will be joining the Harvard schools’ leadership team as of July 1. Stephen...
Joe Louis Barrow Jr. wants greater efforts in treating behavioral and mental health issues.
Joshua Ojo, the son of a single-parent Nigerian immigrant, is working hard in his home borough to erect a new middle school for the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), where his dreams of a future in engineering were nurtured as young student.
Doris Fisher, worth $2.6 billion, has “focused much of her wealth and resources on building charter schools. She and her late husband Donald donated more than $70 million to … (KIPP schools) … (building) the operation into the largest network of charter schools in the country, with 200 schools serving 80,000 students in 20 states,” according to an article in the website Capital & Main in 2016. Oakland A’s owner Fisher, a charter school tycoon, is a leader in ‘charterizing’ public schools. Libby Schaaf connected to Fisher through funding of her education nonprofit, Oakland Pro...