Betsy DeVos’s Education Agenda Can Be Overturned. This City Shows How. Betsy DeVos’s Education Agenda Can Be Overturned. This City Shows How.
What Philadelphia’s fight against market-driven school “reform” can teach us about resisting attacks on public education.
Mar 7, 2017 / Cities Rising / Helen Gym
Betsy DeVos Has Been Confirmed. Now the Fight Really Begins. Betsy DeVos Has Been Confirmed. Now the Fight Really Begins.
DeVos will have significant influence over how civil-rights protections for students are enforced, and how the for-profit college and student-loan industries are regulated.
Feb 8, 2017 / Zoë Carpenter
How Alaskan Activists Got a Key Republican Senator to Oppose Betsy DeVos How Alaskan Activists Got a Key Republican Senator to Oppose Betsy DeVos
Unions and education activists urged Lisa Murkowski to oppose Trump’s education pick. On Tuesday, in a testament to the power of grassroots resistance, Murkowski switched.
Feb 1, 2017 / John Nichols
Students Are Saying No to Betsy DeVos Students Are Saying No to Betsy DeVos
The resistance has made an impact.
Feb 1, 2017 / StudentNation / Various Contributors
Betsy DeVos Just Flunked Her Senate Test Betsy DeVos Just Flunked Her Senate Test
From guns in schools to accountability for for-profit colleges, the nominee for secretary of education either could not or chose not to answer most serious policy questions.
Jan 18, 2017 / Zoë Carpenter
The Coming Crusade Against Public Education The Coming Crusade Against Public Education
Secretary of Education–nominee Betsy DeVos has fought to “advance God's Kingdom” by privatizing the public-school system.
Jan 13, 2017 / Zoë Carpenter
Will Obama Cancel the Loan Debt of For-Profit College Victims? Will Obama Cancel the Loan Debt of For-Profit College Victims?
It may be their last chance for justice before Trump takes over.
Dec 22, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Profit-Driven Schools Fail Uganda’s Children Profit-Driven Schools Fail Uganda’s Children
Silicon Valley–backed Bridge International Academies repeatedly failed to comply with national education standards.
Nov 29, 2016 / StudentNation / Michelle Chen
This Governor Wants to Take Over ‘Failing’ Public Schools and Turn Them Into Charters This Governor Wants to Take Over ‘Failing’ Public Schools and Turn Them Into Charters
These activists are telling Georgia’s Nathan Deal: That’s not how it works.
Nov 3, 2016 / StudentNation / Anna Simonton and Allie McCullen
Unions Enter the World of Online Charter Schools Unions Enter the World of Online Charter Schools
The teachers across Agora Cyber Charter’s “virtual classrooms” have won an unlikely organizing victory.
Sep 14, 2016 / Michelle Chen