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Charter/Community Schools & Partnerships: Privatization Ending Public Education

February 3, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

A charter school can be a community school, and vice versa.  ~National Center for Community Schools There’s new school management these days that might seem nice, but scratch beneath the service and it is privatization and the theft of America’s democratic public schools. There are two points in this blog post. Community schools might be […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Community Schools, Dallas Partners to take over schools, Lausd community schools, Ohio Community Schools, Public School Privatization, school Partnerships

President Donald Trump: What NOW for Public Schools?

November 11, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

President Trump certainly won’t be remembered as someone who “Made America Great Again” by churning the past failed public school policies of both parties. What can we expect from President Donald Trump when it comes to our public schools? Is it all doom and gloom? Can we find any silver lining? Is there a smidgeon […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: charter schools, Community Schools, Corporations, Diane Ravitch, For-Profit Colleges, President-elect Donald Trump, public schools, School Privatization, school reform, Social Justice, Stephen Krashen, vouchers

How REAL Community Schools Differ from Charters Who Adopt that Label

July 22, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

By Mark Naison Community Schools are public schools with wrap around services that become places where all residents of low income communities can find spaces where they can learn, organize and find a voice. The concept was once at the forefront of social justice organizing in the 1980’s and 1990’s, but was pushed aside for […]

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Community Schools or a Bunch of Bologna?

July 21, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

With the re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or No Child Left Behind into the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA), there is a lot of talk about community schools. For many, the term “community schools” conjures up the idea of schools as the hub of the town, with experienced principals and credentialed career […]

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skrashenStephen Krashen@skrashen·
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@hueraTN @NancyEBailey1 YES! Martin Luther King:
"We are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished.”

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EricaLGErica L. Green@EricaLG·
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"Children with cancer touch a special place in people’s hearts. And yet, as a society, we have failed to put our best resources together."

Opinion | My baby daughter died of brain cancer. Here’s what we can do to save other kids. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/25/andrew-kaczynski-daughter-brain-cancer-pediatric-research/?tid=ss_tw

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barb_dowdallBarbara McDowell Dowdall@barb_dowdall·
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@BeckyPringle @KeithEricBenson Will be speaking at Phila Board Ed tonight re restoration of libraries with CTL’s. Only 6 of 200+ schools still have one. 3 newly appointed members all enjoyed that resource in their own school days.

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22 Feb

The National Reading Panel from 20 yrs ago politicized the ongoing quest to build a repertoire of ways to effectively teach students to read. It is NOT settled science. Time for a new, genuinely balanced panel: https://nancyebailey.com/2021/02/22/time-for-a-new-national-reading-panel-to-study-reading-instruction/

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lvstodanceKathy Beery, M.Ed.@lvstodance·
23 Feb

@NancyEBailey1 And just a reminder, in his own words, Biden promised to get rid of the testing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haGLsCBPWKA&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=SchottFoundation

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