Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig

  • This piece was released by California State University Sacramento public affairs: A Sacramento State professor has been named among the nation’s most influential on issues of education policy. Julian Vasquez Heilig, professor and director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership program, has been named to the 2018 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, compiled annually by American Enterprise Institute Director…

    Honored to represent CSU
  • The California Charter School Association has been carrying a bill – SB 806 (Glazer) – to loosen regulations on conflict of interest at charter schools. Pretty obscene in the midst of conflict of interest stories like this and this, two stories that came out since this bill was rejected by the Legislature last year. The author is determined…

    Charters want less accountability for your $ (because of course they do)
  • When I am speaking about education policy in different parts of the country (go here please), I am often asked what is coming next in the effort to profit and privatize public goods during the Q&A. Lynn Davenport, a Cloaking Inequity reader from Texas, asked me to blog information about social impact bonds. What are…

  • It’s that time of year. The political parties are starting to gear up for the 2018 election. My phone is starting to ring because candidates are doing their personal outreach to raise funds for their upcoming campaigns. I recently got a call from a congressional candidate in New Mexico who sounded great on the phone.…

    Are you an Education Voter?
  • At the Center for Human and Civil Rights museum in Atlanta, Georgia, there’s an exhibit with headphones where you can sit and experience the verbal abuse that many civil rights activists lived through during the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins. They could not verbally respond to the racists, lest they suffer violent consequences. Instead, they used nonviolent protest…

    How College Campuses Can Uphold Free Speech AND Shut Down Racists

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