Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig

  • Your faith in what you believe must be a living, working faith that draws you away from comfort and security, and toward risk through confrontation.

    Derrick Bell
  • After my testimony to the TX Senate Committee on Education on charters yesterday, someone stopped me in the hallway of the capitol and responded to a portion of my testimony by arguing essentially that charters are over-represented in the Latina/o college-readiness (majority of school college-ready) data relative to non-charter public schools. This is an interesting hypothesis…

    Are charters better on “college readiness” for Latina/os?
  • This year, as you consider new education laws, I ask you to consider the principle of Subsidiarity. Subsidiarity is the idea that a central authority should only perform those tasks which cannot be performed at a more immediate or local level. In other words, higher or more remote levels of government, like the state, should…

    Gov. Jerry Brown
  • I was invited by Senator Royce West to give testimony on charter schools at the Texas Senate Committee on Education for SB2. You can see the full hearing here. My testimony begins at about 2:29. See Cloaking Inequity’s full thread on charters here. Here is original text of my testimony: First I am honored to…

    Invited Senate Testimony on Charters
  • Our work group has had many questions on how a Community-Based Accountability process would occur on the local level (For CI’s full thread on Community-Based Accountability go here). I noted in a prior post that California had recently developed a Local Control and Accountability plan as part of their school finance reforms. I also noted…

    Bear in the Details: Codifying Community-Based Accountability’s Process

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