As schools reopen this fall they will face their greatest-ever strains about money. Depleted state budgets could force cuts of more than 10 percent; these could escalate as the year goes on and state revenues...
As schools reopen this fall they will face their greatest-ever strains about money. Depleted state budgets could force cuts of more than 10 percent; these could escalate as the year goes on and state revenues...
This is the first in a series of invited responses to some of the big, unanswered questions facing America’s schools.
The fifth-largest school district in the country was one of the earliest in the country to move instruction online, and by our account, it delivered one of the most robust plans.
Note from the authors: We share our most recent COVID-19 findings during a critical moment, as the recurring impact of systemic violence against Black people devastates our communities and the nation. As we work to...
This is a review of The Politics of Institutional Reform: Katrina, Education, and the Second Face of Power, by Terry M. Moe (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Nearly 15 years after Katrina devastated the city of...
A new year is always cause for CRPE to look forward, not back. We think hard about how we can apply our analytical tools to pressing problems in our public education system. We try to...
Long known as uncomfortable truth-tellers in education reform, the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington Bothell has for years tracked the problems that arise as charter schools have made the transition...
If the debate over the value of local control in K-12 public education were a boxing match, you might say supporters of a stronger state role increasingly look to be down and out. This year,...
Last fall, NBA star LeBron James and his foundation received a lot of attention for opening the I Promise Academy in partnership with Akron Public Schools. The school extends philanthropic work James had already been...
In politics, there is nothing like a hard knock to focus the mind. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel tells how this happened for him. In The Atlantic, Emanuel describes himself as once a believer in teacher-focused...
