Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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Why do billionaires spend millions on school boards? Julian Vasquez Heilig speaks with Kitty Kelly Epstein on KPFA’s Education Today radio show (10/28/16) about why billionaire corporate education “reformers” are spending millions of dollars on school board races in Oakland and across the United States. Please Facebook Like, Tweet, etc below and/or reblog to share this…
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So Wikileaks happened thanks to the Russians and whoever else. There is lots of talk in the current presidential election about a variety of topics emanating from the purportedly leaked emails on Wikileaks. However, I haven’t seen much conversation about the the content of the leaks that is relevant to education policy. So I did…
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Statement Regarding the NAACP’s Resolution on a Moratorium on Charter Schools CINCINNATI – Members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Board of Directors ratified a resolution Saturday adopted by delegates at its 2016 107th National Convention calling for a moratorium on charter school expansion and for the strengthening of oversight in governance…
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Trumpian=twisted and incorrect sense of reality. So you might have had a chance to hear what charter proponents and education “reformers” have said recently in the New York Times and everywhere else about the NAACP charter resolution that will be voted on the the National Board this weekend. Donald Trump loves charter schools and market-based…
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Politicians in Texas may not have ever seen a high-stakes test that they didn’t like. We’ve seen unreliable and invalid uses of high-stakes testing pervade Texas since George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind was birthed in Texas in the early 1990s. I am now hearing from Texas that districts are now attempting to tie librarians to student…
Cloaking Inequity 
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