Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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How much taxpayer money does Teach For America spend? How much money do the Walmart heirs spend on Teach For America? Julian Vasquez Heilig joined the show State of Education with a parent of a corps member to discuss Teach For America on 1030 AM KVOI The Voice. Topics and questions addressed: How much money…
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Originally posted on waltercrunkite: Dear Ms. Janelle Monae, First and foremost thank you for bringing a black feminist perspective into music that moves my soul. HellYouTalmBout continues to be a source of hope, righteous indignation, and monument to the lives of so many snuffed out, the song is at once too long and yet not…
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Teach Thought: Reform, Charter Schools, Poverty and Politics
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What’s the reason why Democrats and Republicans are afraid to discuss education in their stump speeches or debates? Will the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) federal education bill be better than No Child Left Behind? What are some positive attributes of charter schools? In this Teach Thought podcast episode Drew Perkins (Director of Professional Development at…
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Will a prominent corporate charter school chain face a class action lawsuit for their alleged refusal to serve special education students? I first blogged about BASIS in the post What BASIS?: Nepotism and aggrandizement in charters? At the time, I included Charter School Scandals uncovered special report about BASIS. The first BASIS charter school was founded in Tucson in 1998 by…
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Are you mad at Secretary Clinton about the “school closure” comments? I get it. You don’t want to be Barack Obama’d on education. We were promised hope and change and thought that would extend to education. Instead Arne Duncan took the reigns from George W. Bush, Rod Paige, and Margaret Spellings then did even worse.…
Cloaking Inequity 
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