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The Dangerous End of School Libraries and Public Education

February 18, 2022 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

School libraries are critical to maintaining great democratic public schools. The loss of school libraries threatens their existence and a student’s right to receive information. See the American Library Association and The Universal Right to Free Expression: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights.  Many public schools no longer have functioning school libraries or qualified […]

Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: Boston Public Schools, Corporate Agenda for Public Schools, Corporate education reform, future ready schools, Online Learning, Philadelphia Public Schools, Public School Privatization, Public School Transformation, School Librarians, school libraries

The Longtime Plan for Screens to Replace Teachers: School Choice the Prenda Way

September 26, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 12 Comments

No matter your viewpoint on the coronavirus, for those who care about democratic public schools, our fears merge when it comes to worrying that technology will replace teachers and end those schools. Covid-19 is the perfect storm, and Prenda micro-schools are the prototype. These are schools that focus on commercial tech programs without real teachers. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Disruptive" Technology, charter schools, children and technology, covid-19, cyberschools, Online Learning, Prenda micro-schools, Public School Privatization, School Choice, Schools without Teachers, teachers

The Candidates: How Will They Solve Society’s Problems Without Great Public Schools?

June 30, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

Here we go again. Two nights of Democratic debates and public schools were only mentioned in connection with other issues. The candidates discussed climate change, gun control, health care, foreign policy, free community college, and more. They never tackled the issues surrounding for-profit colleges. There were no questions about the privatization of public education in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Democratic candidates for president, Democratic Public Schools, education discussion, Public School Privatization, School Privatization, the lack of discussion

The Privatization of Teaching Teachers How to Teach Reading: Cashing In on Kids!

February 7, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 19 Comments

Wondering about all the recent articles claiming teachers don’t know how to teach reading, and their education schools are failing them? It appears to be about nonprofits! These groups are competing with universities. They promise to better prepare teachers to teach reading, for a fee, of course! But there’s no proof they will do teacher […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: privatization of reading instruction, Public School Privatization, reading instruction nonprofits

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

A Student’s Mental Health Could Depend on Putting the Arts Back into the Public School Curriculum

September 21, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

Safety commissions, school districts, PTAs, and other groups and individuals have discussed school safety. One smart move would be to ensure that every school has a legitimate arts program including visual arts, music, drama, and dance. Students who struggle with mental health problems might benefit from the arts. Every child should have access. Students should […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Art, Dance, Drama, mental health, music, privatization, Public School Privatization, Public School Privatization of the Arts, public schools, Public schools and mental health, Public schools and the arts, school safety, the arts

XQ Super Schools—Business Working to End Public High Schools

September 5, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 39 Comments

Laurene Powell Jobs and her XQ school bus are coming to us via television on major networks on September 8th.  She wants to remake high schools. Powell Jobs would have you think that high schools haven’t changed for a hundred years. That’s not true. The American high school can certainly always improve, but the institution […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: High School, Lauren Powell Jobs, Public School Privatization, public schools, Tech take over of public high schools, Technology in Schools, XQ Super Schools

Tennessee Legislators Cry, “Thank God for Memphis!”

April 5, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Many voucher plans are popping up in state legislatures across the country. Here’s what’s happening in Tennessee. By Jim Gifford No matter what, many Tennessee legislators know a good deal when they see it. If a proposed new bill or untested program concerning public education is considered too risky or is unpopular with the constituents […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Achievement School District (ASD), Betsy DeVos, Memphis, Public School Privatization, Tennessee, Tennessee Legislature, TN Rep. Harry Brooks, TN Sen. Brian Kelsey, Voucher Plans, vouchers

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@susanoha @NancyEBailey1 "Sell What We Do": The Manufactured Crisis to Hide the Story Being Sold https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/01/30/sell-what-we-do-the-manufactured-crisis-to-hide-the-story-being-sold/

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drmaryhoward Dr. Mary Howard @drmaryhoward ·
29 Jan

Nancy Bailey: Reading Disabilities: Focus on Public Schools NOT School Choice!

“It’s unfair to say public school teachers fail to teach reading, while charter schools show substandard results. This creates a double standard.” @NancyEBailey1

https://nancyebailey.com/2023/01/29/reading-disabilities-focus-on-public-schools-not-school-choice/

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29 Jan

The focus should be on lifting traditional public schools & reading programs for many students who attend those schools rather than on unproven private and charter schools. Fix IDEA by increasing options. https://nancyebailey.com/2023/01/29/reading-disabilities-focus-on-public-schools-not-school-choice/

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arizona_sos Save Our Schools AZ @arizona_sos ·
28 Jan

Special interests call ESA vouchers “scholarships” because private schools select their students. It’s not “school choice,” it’s the school’s choice 😡#AZVoucherWatch #VouchersHurt #FundOurSchools

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danwuori Dan Wuori @danwuori ·
29 Jan

On-demand standardized testing has no place in kindergarten. There are far more appropriate and meaningful methods of assessing young children. https://twitter.com/reimagschool/status/1619665302450753536

David Locke @ReimagSchool

My wife's Kindergarten students felt very stressed and were crying when they had to take a standardized test. When she reported this to administrators their solution was "test them until they cry, and then stop." #testthemtiltheycry #resisttesting

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