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154 Candidates. 38 States. Meet the Newcomers Who Ousted State Incumbents in the Primaries — and See How They’ll Fight to Reshape Education Priorities If Elected

Asher Lehrer-Small

‘Confusion Reigns’ for Parents Seeking Child Care and Pre-K. But Some Experts Don’t See Biden’s Sprawling Early-Childhood Plan as a Fix

Linda Jacobson

Education Policy ‘Ghost’ Carmel Martin Is Biden’s Most Important Staffer You’ve Never Heard Of

Kevin Mahnken

Biden Blasts Trump’s Handling of COVID-19, Saying the President ‘Has No Real Plan’ for Getting Students and Teachers Back to School Safely

Linda Jacobson

Majority of Americans Give Trump a Failing Grade on Education Policy Ahead of Re-election Bid, PDK Poll Finds

Mark Keierleber

Trump Expected to Stick to Twin Themes of Reopening and Private School Choice at This Week’s Republican National Convention

Linda Jacobson

Analysis: Delegates to AFT’s Virtual Convention Have a Very Long Wish List. That Doesn’t Mean the Democrats, If They Win, Will Go Along

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: Kamala Harris Changed Her Thinking About Absenteeism, Truancy & Enforcement. What That Might Mean for Her as VP

Phyllis W. Jordan

Democratic School Choice Advocates Struggle to Be Heard Over the Din of COVID, Trump & Recession as Virtual Convention Ushers in Election’s Final Phase

Kevin Mahnken

Two States, Two Responses: Governors in Missouri and Kansas Navigate the Tricky Politics of Reopening Schools

Kevin Mahnken

Analysis: NEA Endorses Biden by Largest Margin in 24 Years — but With Fewer Delegates Voting — at Virtual Convention

Mike Antonucci

Analysis: The Year’s Top Election Issue? In States Like Texas, It’s Reopening Schools

Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune

With Nation Focused on Reopening Schools, Biden’s Choice of Kamala Harris as Running Mate Could Renew Attention on Integration

Linda Jacobson

Trump’s Weekend Executive Actions Leave School Funding ‘On the Cutting Room Floor’

Linda Jacobson

Biden Prioritizes School Funding, Early Education and Classroom Equity in Appearance at AFT Convention; Decries GOP’s ‘Out of Touch’ Recovery Plan

Linda Jacobson

Nearly a Month After Election, Insurgent Educator Jamaal Bowman Declared Victor Over Veteran New York Congressman

Kevin Mahnken

The Veepstakes Is Taking Over, But the Education World Wants to Know: Who Will Replace DeVos?

Kevin Mahnken

An EDlection Surprise in NYC? In Tuesday’s Primary, a Former Teacher and Principal Aims to Unseat 16-Term Bronx Incumbent Eliot Engel

Kevin Mahnken

Will ‘Free College’ Survive COVID-19? How the Pandemic Could Devastate College Promise Programs — and Why the November Election Might Be Their Only Hope

Laura Fay

Open Letter to Joe Biden: The Votes of Black and Brown Charter School Parents Matter. Ignore Us at Your Own Peril

Dr. Howard Fuller

New Democratic ‘Unity Task Forces’ Include Education Adviser Who Previously Railed Against Biden’s ‘So-Called School Reform Agenda’

Kevin Mahnken

Analysis: NEA Board, PAC Council Endorse Biden for President. Representative Assembly Will Weigh In by Mail in July

Mike Antonucci

74 Interview: Democrats for Education Reform’s Shavar Jeffries Pushes Feds: Coronavirus a ‘Historic Opportunity’ to Lead National Effort to Rethink Education

Andrew J. Rotherham & Emmeline Zhao

Williams: The Politics — and Economics — Around Why We Should Make Pre-K Universal Are Changing

Conor Williams

Marshall & Osborne: ‘Free College for All’ Is a Non-Starter for Many Voters. New Poll Shows Why Talking Point Is Dangerous for Democrats

Will Marshall & David Osborne

Mead: Question for the Democratic Presidential Hopefuls — Why Are Government-Funded Nonprofits Fine for Pre-K but Not for K-12?

Sara Mead

Analysis: National Education Association Abruptly Endorses Joe Biden, Angering Sanders Supporters

Mike Antonucci

Bernie’s Billion-Dollar Education Plan: Sanders’s Proposal Would Dramatically Expand Magnet Funding to Integrate America’s Racially Isolated Schools. But Will It Work?

Mark Keierleber

After Record Spending and an Ongoing Union vs. Charter Power Struggle, At Least 2 Los Angeles School Board Races Appear Headed to a Runoff

Taylor Swaak

After Super Tuesday, 15 Key Education Issues to Keep Following in the States That Voted March 3

Laura Fay, Meghan Gallagher & Steve Snyder

Democratic Debate Fact-Check: Did 23 NYC Schools Top State Rankings When Bloomberg Left Office? Close. It Was 22, and That List Deserves a Closer Look

Andrew Brownstein

Biden Notches Decisive Win in South Carolina Primary, as Lawmakers Edge Towards State Education Overhaul

Kevin Mahnken

Biden’s Tough-on-Crime Mantra Led to School ‘Militarization,’ Critics Say. Why His Legacy on Campus Cops Matters and Puts Him At Odds with Progressives

Mark Keierleber

Bernie Sanders Wins Nevada: How Las Vegas Teachers Helped the Candidate Score His Biggest 2020 Victory Yet

Kevin Mahnken

America’s Young People Don’t Vote. In a New Book, Professor John Holbein Considers What Schools Can Do to Produce Better Citizens — and Maybe Even Get Them to the Polls

Kevin Mahnken

Toch: School Choice Is Here to Stay. But How to Make It Fair and Equitable for All Families? High-Tech Common-Enrollment System Can Help

Thomas Toch

Wise: Iowa’s Education Policies Are Good for Our State’s Students and a Model for the Country. Here Are 10 Reasons Why

Ryan Wise

Three Decades After Its First School Funding Lawsuit, New Hampshire Turns to the Public for the First Time to Find an Equitable Solution for All Students

Debra West

Spurrier: On the Grandest Policy Stage — the State of the Union Address — Trump Signals Shift to Scaled-Down Education Ambitions

Alex Spurrier

Trump Uses State of the Union Address to Push for Tax-Credit Scholarships, Declaring No Child Should Be Forced to Attend ‘a Failing Government School’

Kevin Mahnken

Bradford: Beware the Democrats’ New Teachers Union Loyalty Test

Derrell Bradford

Avila & Ponce: Presidential Candidates Need a Primer on What’s Really Wrong With Our Public Schools. Our Education Platform Can Help

Layla Avila & Ana Ponce

Aldeman: The Iowa Caucuses Steer Our National Priorities. But Iowa’s Education Policies Are Bad for the Nation — and for Iowa

Chad Aldeman

Districts, Charters and ‘Public School Vouchers’: Unraveling Elizabeth Warren’s Complicated Evolution on School Choice

Kevin Mahnken

New Poll: Majority of Democratic Voters Prefer Candidates Who Would Preserve Federal Charter School Spending

Brendan Lowe

Listen Up, Candidates: Most Teachers Feel Their Voices Aren’t Being Heard, New Survey Reveals

Mark Keierleber

Buttigieg Was ‘Under the Illusion’ That South Bend’s Schools Are Integrated. But Despite a Decades-Long Struggle (and Federal Court Order), Stark Racial Divisions Persist

Mark Keierleber

‘If We Don’t Fight for Our Children, Who Else Is Going to Do It?’ Charter Advocates to Continue Democratic Debate Protests Thursday in Los Angeles

Carolyn Phenicie

Parents Want Debate Moderators to Ask Democrats Whether They Support Black and Latino Families on Public School Choice

Lakisha Young

O’Keefe: At Candidate Forum, Michael Bennet Looked Back on the Reforms He Implemented as Denver Supe. Could Those Ideas Go National?

Bonnie O'Keefe

Just Two 2020 Candidates, Bennet and Warren, Discuss Charter Schools at Education Election Forum

Carolyn Phenicie

Trivers: As an Educator and a Parent of Color, I Stand Up for Charter Schools Against Politics, Hypocrisy and Inequity

Natasha Trivers

Analysis: Yes, Teachers Need More Pay. But They Also Need Strong Leaders to Support Them. The Candidates Need to Talk About Both

Rachel Metz

Adams: Michael Bloomberg Made Sweeping Changes in NYC Schools as Mayor. What Might He Do as President?

Alina Adams

Shuls: What Does It Mean to Hold Charter Schools to the ‘Same Standards’ as Traditional Schools? To Warren & Charter Parents, Very Different Things

James V. Shuls

74 Interview: Howard Fuller on Schooling Elizabeth Warren About Charters, African-American Families, School Choice & Her Education Plan

Beth Hawkins

Union Report: L.A. Teachers Union’s Endorsement of Bernie Sanders May Affect the Union More Than It Does the Sanders Campaign

Mike Antonucci

Waters: 9 Theories That Might Explain Cory Booker’s Change of Heart on Charter Schools in New York Times Essay

Laura Waters

EDlection2019: Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards Keeps the Democrats Rolling in the South

Kevin Mahnken

Cory Booker and Charter Schools: Before the New York Times Essay, What the Senator Has Said — and What Research Has Shown — About His Education Track Record in Newark

Steve Snyder

Children Are Asking Some of the ‘Most Powerful, Emotional’ Questions of Presidential Candidates About Gun Violence

Tyler Kingkade

EDlection2019: Democrats Enjoy Big Wins in Kentucky and Virginia, and Reform Foes ‘Flip the Board’ in Denver

Kevin Mahnken

Democrats Look to Win Elections and Big Education Victories — in the South. No, Seriously

Kevin Mahnken

A Mom’s View: My Son Loves Elizabeth Warren. She Said She Wants to Fix Schools for Kids Like Him. Her New Education Plan Ignores Them

Keri Rodrigues

Jeffries: Warren’s Plan to End Charter School Program Rejects Obama’s Legacy and Undercuts Opportunity for Underserved Students

Shavar Jeffries

Stewart: Elizabeth Warren’s Education Plan Is Exactly What We Need — If Our Goal Is to Make the Achievement Gap Permanent

Chris Stewart

Louisiana’s Governor Race Is Tight but Will Likely Not Affect the Fate of Education Reform in the State

Kevin Mahnken

Aldeman: Did Fear of School Closings Prompt Warren’s Tough Talk on Tests? She Needn’t Worry — Those Shutdowns Rarely Happen

Chad Aldeman

Charter Supporters Deride Warren’s Proposed Crackdown on Sector as ‘Out of Touch’

Carolyn Phenicie

Former Obama Ed Secretaries Urge More Details on Democrats’ Big Education Spending Proposals

Carolyn Phenicie

Anti-Reform Bona Fides Now a Litmus Test for Some Democrats Willing to Attack Anyone Who Steps Out of Line — Including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren

Chris Stewart

Is Denver’s Era of Education Reform Coming to an End? Outsider School Board Candidates Aim to ‘Flip the Board’ This November

Kevin Mahnken

Analysis: New Newark Poll Shows Majority of City’s Voters Favor School Options and Charter Schools. Democratic Presidential Candidates Need to Pay Attention

Laura Waters

Jeffries: New Poll Finds Voters Favor Innovation, School Choice, Fair Funding and Accountability. The Democrats Should Listen

Shavar Jeffries

Sanders Pulls Out of Campaign Doldrums With a Huge Fundraising Quarter — and Lots of Support From Teachers

Kevin Mahnken

Stewart: The Democratic Presidential Candidates Have Something for Everyone — Except Classroom Students

Chris Stewart

Leery of Charter Talk, Democratic Candidates Wade into Teacher Pay, College Debt, the Next Ed Secretary — Almost Any Other School Issue — During Thursday Debate-a-Thon

Carolyn Phenicie

Video Explainer: Why Universal Pre-K Is a Hot Topic in This Year’s Democratic Presidential Primary

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2020 Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Love ‘Universal’ Pre-K. But When It Comes to Providing Schooling for America’s Youngest Students, Few Are Moving Beyond Talking Points

Carolyn Phenicie

Bradford: Democratic Presidential Wannabes Blame Charters for School Segregation. They Ignore the Racist Redlining That’s Actually to Blame

Derrell Bradford

In Second Debate, Democrats Leave Busing Behind, Focusing Instead on Education’s Role in Racial Strife ‘Happening Now’

Carolyn Phenicie

Weisberg: Money Alone Can’t Fix America’s Schools. Let’s Hope the Next President Will Focus on Real Solutions for Fighting Inequity

Daniel Weisberg

WATCH: Everything You Need to Know About Title I — and the $15 Billion It Directs to American Schools — in 2 Minutes

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2020 Democrats Want to Dramatically Increase Title I Funding. But Without More Accountability, Is This Just the ‘Santa Claus Approach to Education Policy’?

Carolyn Phenicie

EDlection Results Are In: More Than 600 Readers Chose Teacher Pay, Parental Choice as Top Issues in Online Poll

Lauren Costantino

Cast Your Vote! Which Education Issue Do You Most Want to See Discussed and Debated by Democrats in Detroit?

Lauren Costantino

Biden-Harris Exchange Makes Busing a Surprise Focus of 2020 Campaign. How Will It Affect the Debate Over Integration?

Kevin Mahnken

Williams: The 2019 Democratic Debates, Where No One Argues for Fixing America With Better Schools

Conor Williams

Two Days of Democratic Debate Showcased Wide Canvas of Education Issues, From Busing to Social-Emotional Learning

Carolyn Phenicie

Charters, Child Care & More: 5 Ways Education Could Come Up at the Democratic Debates

Carolyn Phenicie

Williams: Democrats Awash in Campaign Promises to Put More Money Into Education, but Silent on How to Change Schools to Better Serve Kids

Conor Williams

EDlection 2020: Comparing K-12 Plans on Teacher Pay, Pre-K and More From Democratic Front-runners Biden & Sanders

Carolyn Phenicie

Bernie Sanders’s K-12 Proposal Would More Than Double the Federal Education Budget: 6 of His Top Spending Priorities

Carolyn Phenicie

Bernie Sanders Wants New Limits on Charters, but Impact May Be Less Than Revolutionary

Carolyn Phenicie

Williams: Kamala Harris’s $315B Teacher Pay Raise Has Merit, but Is It the Best Way to Improve Education for Poor Kids?

Conor Williams

Analysis: Why Those Looking to Reform American Education Will Need More Than Facts on Their Side to Win the 2020 Political Debate

Conor Williams

Education Level ‘Strongly Predicts’ Degree of Bias Against Women in Politics, New Survey Shows

Laura Fay

Williams: 30 Years Ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Parents Made a Difficult School Choice. Now Her Cousin May Have to Do the Same

Conor Williams

Free College. Debt-Free College. Higher Ed Affordability. Whatever You Call It, It’s the First Big Education Issue of the 2020 Campaign

Carolyn Phenicie

EDlection 2020: With Cory Booker Running for President, 5 Insights Into His Education Record in Newark

Steve Snyder
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