Nov 20, 20195 minRadical Imaginary And The Student Bill Of RightsBy Luke Amphlett San Antonio ISD just approved a new Student Code of Conduct and Student Bill of Rights. It’s a hugely important step, and one without preced...
Oct 1, 20193 minPedro Martinez Speaks At Event Organized By Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Worker, Climate-Change Deniers. Why did the SAISD Superintendent accept an invitation to speak at an event organized by one of the most anti-immigrant, climate-change-denying, school vouche...
Sep 1, 20194 minSAISD Leaders All Smiles At Photo-op With Anti-Immigrant, Anti-LGBTQ Dan Patrick. Dan Patrick is a racist, lying, immigrant-hating, trans-dehumanizing bigot who knows nothing about Texas public schools. It’s great to see him all smiles wit...
Aug 31, 20194 min“Innovative” Charter Partnerships Are A Disaster For Students.Ogden, Storm, Texans Can Academy, and Democracy Prep demonstrate the emptiness of district promises. As Texas Education Agency leaders and politicians, inclu...
Aug 18, 20196 minAttack On Teacher Contracts Will Impact All Of Us.Ending continuing contracts will damage our profession, and cost us all in the long run. From an SAISD high school teacher. At the end of the day on August 7...
May 17, 20194 min“Let’s Build A San Antonio Sin Miedo For Everyone”San Antonio criminal justice reform coalition: “Let’s fundamentally rethink the role of jails, prisons, and punishment in our city. Let’s transform the way w...
May 6, 20196 min65% Of SAISD Voters Reject Vision Of Current SAISD Leaders, Even As Incumbents Return To Office.Alicia Perry, Patti Radle, and Christina Martinez won their individual board races on Saturday. But the numbers tell a deeper story if we dig a little. On Sa...
Apr 29, 20195 minUnprecedented Collapse In Student Enrollment Under Patti Radle & Pedro MartinezNo other SAISD superintendent, and no other school board president have ever presided over such a catastrophic downturn in student enrollment. Internal SAISD...
Apr 22, 20193 minYour Choice: Vote To Support The Teachers Who Work In SAISD Schools, Or Vote Against Them. Teachers, or big business-backed “reformers”. That's the only choice you have. Over the past few weeks, the May 4 SAISD School Board Elections have been desc...
Apr 4, 20192 minSAISD Board Member Christina Martinez: “I need more time to be a well-informed board member”If our board members didn't have time to properly engage with charter management agreements, what chance is there that our community members did? During last...
Mar 29, 20192 min“The ideas of reform and innovation have been tearing apart public education” Subcontracting out our schools is not a quality answer to any of the difficulties our district faces or to the pedagogy of public education in which all stud...
Mar 26, 20193 minSAISD School Board Waives Its Own Community Voice Policy To Push Through “Community-Driven” ChartersBoard again shows the hollowness of its commitment to community engagement and empowerment. At last night’s SAISD School Board meeting, trustees voted unanim...
Mar 21, 20192 min216 Police Reports In A Year at K-6 Ogden Academy Over the course of the 2017-18 school year*, 216 police reports were made at the Westside campus run by Relay Graduate School. Let us marvel at the power of ...
Mar 18, 20197 minAre You Irreplaceable, Replaceable, or Expendable?Who gets to decide, and why would they think such labels have any place in our education system? In a January 14 memo, SAISD leadership called on principals ...
Mar 8, 20195 minSAISD Educators Endorse Candidates For Board ElectionsA 19-year-old father, and two mothers of SAISD students will be running against incumbents in District 5, and District 6, and for a newly empty seat in Distr...
Feb 16, 20195 minThe State of Our District: A Community ResponseBy Sarah Sorensen We are a community that values education, a community with a legacy of fighting for educational justice. I am a member of the Our Schools C...
Feb 5, 20194 minIs SAISD Privatizing Classified And Support Services?Word has been spreading across San Antonio ISD that district leaders are moving to privatize non-teaching services across the district. Outsourcing school se...
Jan 4, 20193 minAmerica's Richest, Tax-Dodging, School-Privatizing Family Loves Pedro Martinez And His Board. It’s good to know that the richest family in America, famous for tax avoidance, paying workers so little that they have to rely on food stamps to survive, an...
Dec 18, 20185 minThe Portfolio Model Of Public School Privatization Comes To San AntonioHold onto your hats folks, a man-made “Great Schools” hurricane is about to hit. San Antonio ISD superintendent Pedro Martinez and his chief of innovation, M...
Dec 11, 20186 minTeachers at Ogden Academy Speak Out About Dehumanization of StudentsTeachers at the San Antonio ISD school are blowing the whistle on the “racist, classist” instructional and behavior management frameworks being imposed upon ...