The school’s principal announced this week there would be “consequences” if students criticized the reopening online.
Education & Youth
Youth across the U.S. are organizing for police-free schools and resources that prioritize their well-being.
Since the economy can’t reopen until schools reopen, teachers hold leverage beyond the educational realm.
One school district nixed a proposed pilot with a Koch-backed microschool, but the model is spreading amid the pandemic.
Progressive economist Gerald Epstein discusses how the Federal Reserve can step in to save schools.
Activists say removing police will make schools safer for students of color and free up cash for COVID safety measures.
All over the country, school districts have been utterly abandoned.
Renaming the school to honor Lewis “will serve as an inspiration to our students,” one board member said.
The push to reopen has been denounced by education advocates as an attempt to weaken the public education system.
Turning schools into hotbeds of infection is in line with Betsy DeVos’s plan to undermine the public school system.