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Coffee Break: Priscilla Agbeo on Loving Her ‘Blackness’ From Chicago to Stanford
By Katelyn Silva Priscilla Agbeo is a junior at Stanford University, where she is focused on African and African American studies. She is also a woman of color—an African immigrant from the South Side of Chicago with a low-income background....
Coffee Break: NCTQ’s Kate Walsh on How the ‘Tide is Turning’ on Teacher Quality
By Peter Cunningham Since 2003, Kate Walsh has been working hard to improve the teaching force in our schools—an undisputed key to better academic performance. She’s served as the president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) during that time,...
Coffee Break: Lori Barden on What Works Best for Schools and Why More Parents Should Run for Office
By Katelyn Silva Lori Barden is a parent of two school-aged boys, Tanner (7) and Will (12), who attend an intentionally diverse public charter school in Rhode Island. She just completed a run to become District 59 State Representative in...
A Can’t-Miss Episode of “As the Charters Turn”
How many episodes of “As the Charters Turn” have you seen on the TV news. I’ve lost track. It’s a required part of doing comms for a charter-friendly school district. But they get to be hard to take…kind of the...
On the Wire…Trump’s Ed Pick, New DC Chancellor, ESSA Help for Districts
Trump’s Ed Pick Elevates a Troubling School-Choice Model Betsy DeVos was officially announced last week as the nominee for US Secretary of Education in the upcoming Trump Administration. She makes perfect sense from a policy and politics standpoint: strong proponent...
The Comms’ Challenge of Charters Twisting in the Wind on Their Own
I’ve been having a hard time making sense of the thumping that charter schools suffered in Massachusetts on election day. Generally speaking, charters have strong support among families. Specifically speaking, Bay State charters are producing among the best results for...
The Power of Student Voice and Trusting the Messenger
By Brendan Lowe This year, our back-to-school communications plan survived for four days. Indeed, our talk of increased transportation access and new supports to allow schools to focus more on instruction didn’t even make it through a week. Before...
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Mike Vaughn
Michael Vaughn, Education Reform Advocate and Longtime School District Spokesperson in Chicago (pictured above with then- CEO Arne Duncan and New Schools Officer Josh Edelman) and Denver.
