View as Webpage Members, Charter schools were originally intended to provide a space for educators to be more flexible and innovative, but with the advent of corporate charter schools, that intention has been corrupted. Now, billionaires have turned corporate charter schools into money-making schemes to benefit themselves, not students. They are using taxpayer dollars to […]

    President Biden’s FY2023 budget proposal, released last Monday, is a statement of values that I share.  It would make historic investments in schools with high poverty rates through Title I funding and in children with disabilities through IDEA. It would also invest in full-service community schools, educator recruitment and retention, higher education, and […]

View as Webpage The Senate Judiciary Committee has completed its hearings and will vote April 4 on confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the United States Supreme Court. Leadership aims to hold a floor vote before the recess that begins April 11.  I found the hearings both exhilarating and painful to watch. Judge Jackson’s […]