Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig

  • What do you think the people’s movement should be doing to stop the profit-driven education take-over and create the joyful, engaging schools we all want for our kids? Julian Vasquez Heilig, Professor and California NAACP Education Chair, speaks with Kitty Kelly Epstein on her Education Today radio show on 94.1 KPFA (6/24) and reveals the complexities…

    Disclosing for-profit education reform agenda on 94.1
  • As a nation, we are fortunate that the Supreme Court ruled that the University of Texas admission plan “clearly reconciled the pursuit of diversity with the constitutional promise of equal treatment and dignity.” In Fisher v. University of Texas, the court considered the case of Abigail Fisher, who claims she didn’t get in to UT…

    Fisher II got it right on Race and Affirmative Action
  • Join me tomorrow on the radio to talk education reform at 2:30 p.m. PST. Listen worldwide at: http://stations.pacifica.org:8000/kpfa_64  

    Let’s Talk Education Reform LIVE on the radio
  •   The international media is reporting (mainstream US news media??) Mexican police attacked teachers striking against neoliberal education reforms in the southern state of Oaxaca, killing at least eight people and leaving dozens more injured. Así los disparos de los policías federales en Nochixtlán @julioastillero @lhan55 pic.twitter.com/cOc6DvIYIt — Jorge A. Pérez (@Tte_ARto) June 19, 2016…

    Police murdering teachers this week
  • In the post BREAKING: TFA out in San Francisco I first discussed the decision by the School Board of the San Francisco Unified School District decision to break their relationship with Teach For America. Episode 10 of the Truth For America podcast features an EXCLUSIVE conversation with Lita Blanc, President of United Educators of San Francisco, about the demise…

    Sinking TFA?: Demise in San Francisco

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