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• Gender Diversity, Inclusive Education and Back to School with BATs

  By vspatz on June 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  BATs General Manager Marla Kilfoyle previews the 4th Annual Back to School with BATs Conference, scheduled for Seattle, WA, July 22-23. Lisa Keating, founder of My Purple Umbrella, a community organization that advocates for LGBTQ youth, shares the work she… Read More ›

• Gender-Inclusive, Multicultural BadAss Teaching on the June BUS Ride

  By vspatz on June 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  UPDATE: Click here for June 22 Feature Report Segment 1 Segment 2 Coming up the Education Town Hall’s monthly BUS program — driven by BadAss Teachers, United Opt Out, and Save Our Schools — the 4th Annual Back to School… Read More ›

• DeVos, “Liberty,” and Education

  By vspatz on June 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  “Schools that receive federal funds must follow federal law, period.” This is what US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday. Over and over. She repeated this so many times that US News called it… Read More ›

• DC’s Education Budget

  By vspatz on June 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  DC budget watchers Emily Mechner and Mary Levy discuss recent budget decisions, how they evolved, and prospects for schools in the coming year and beyond. Mechner is a DCPS parent, member of the Local School Advisory Team for Oyster-Adams Bilingual… Read More ›

• DC Schools, Immigration, and Sanctuary

  By vspatz on June 8, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Parents are calling DC schools to say, “I cannot pick up my child right now, because ICE is outside my door,” Allyson Criner Brown, of Teaching for Change, tells the Education Town Hall. In addition, she says, students are missing… Read More ›

• Schooling and Immigration; Education Budget: on the next Education Town Hall

  By vspatz on June 6, 2017 • ( 0 )

  How are schools responding to immigration-related stresses on students and families? How will recent budget decisions affect DC students and teachers? Join the Education Town Hall, Thursday June 8, 11 a.m. — noon Eastern, for the latest. Listen via TuneIn… Read More ›

• Feature: Pearson, DeVos, LGBT Book Month

  By vspatz on May 25, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  This report begins with a financial note from earlier this month. In addition: US Secretary of Education defends right to discriminate, while libraries help us prepare now for LGBT Book Month. Feature report begins at 4:45 — Pearson Down-Sizing, Focusing… Read More ›

• On the BUS: Responding to the White House’s Education Budget

  By vspatz on May 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The White House’s proposed budget would cut public education by hundreds of millions, while giving money to voucher and charter programs. In addition, Denisha Jones tells the Education Town Hall, cuts in Medicaid and other programs will affect the ability… Read More ›

• Fight for 6 NOT 540 Days of Testing

  By vspatz on May 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Today’s students lose 540 days, equivalent to three school years, to standardized testing and test prep during their K-12 years, according to Dr. Jesse Turner’s calculations. Back when, standardized tests were rare — occurring roughly three times in a school… Read More ›

• Jitu Brown and Sarah Chambers on the April BUS

  By vspatz on April 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Jitu Brown, national director of Journey for Justice Alliance, discussed the #WeChoose campaign — Education Equity, not the Illusion of Choice — on the first segment of the April 27 Education Town Hall BUS. In the second segment, Sarah Chambers,… Read More ›

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