Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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Julian Vasquez Heilig discusses whether Betsy DeVos should be confirmed at US Secretary of Education on the Rick Smith Show. They also discuss whether her school “choice” ideology for education has worked. Here are a few teaser tweets from the conversation: @ProfessorJVH @BadassTeachersA DeVos's new pyramid scheme is our children's minds. #EdReform — Rick Smith…
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The extent to which special student populations (ELL, Special Education and Economically Disadvantaged) gain access to charter schools is understudied. The new study Separate and Unequal?: The Problematic Segregation of Special Populations in Charter Schools Relative to Traditional Public Schools utilizes state, district, and local level data to understand the enrollment of high-need special populations in charter schools compared…
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During School Choice Week a white Texas governor tried to convince the public that school choice, including school vouchers, are civil rights. However, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organizations appears to disagree with that premise by formally opposing Betsy DeVos, the school choice queen, for US Secretary of Education. (For more on Betsy DeVos click here). It…
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The nation’s largest civil rights organization steps up its opposition to charter schools just as a president and new education secretary appear ready to kick the sector into high gear. This article appeared here at Phi Delta Kappan. by Joan Richardson AN INTERVIEW WITH JULIAN VASQUEZ HEILIG KAPPAN: What’s your perspective on what led the…
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I have collected a variety of media sources covering the hearing of Betsy DeVos for US Secretary of Education. Is she qualified? I’ll begin with source material from the hearing. Then, I will include some of the critiques of her answers— including my conversation on yesterday’s Jeff Santos Show. First, Kaine v. DeVos https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/821592217043271680 Translation:…
Cloaking Inequity 
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