“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...
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- Mar 26, 2019
- 3 min
SAISD School Board Waives Its Own Community Voice Policy To Push Through “Community-Driven” Charters
Board again shows the hollowness of its commitment to community engagement and empowerment. At last night’s SAISD School Board meeting,...
- Mar 18, 2019
- 7 min
Are 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...
- Feb 5, 2019
- 4 min
Is 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....
- Jan 4, 2019
- 3 min
America'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...
- Dec 18, 2018
- 5 min
The Portfolio Model Of Public School Privatization Comes To San Antonio
Hold onto your hats folks, a man-made “Great Schools” hurricane is about to hit. San Antonio ISD superintendent Pedro Martinez and his...
- Dec 11, 2018
- 6 min
Teachers at Ogden Academy Speak Out About Dehumanization of Students
Teachers at the San Antonio ISD school are blowing the whistle on the “racist, classist” instructional and behavior management frameworks...
- Oct 29, 2018
- 2 min
A Pro-Charter, Pro-Privatization Website Unveiled A Fawning Profile of Pedro Martinez And His Team
Pedro Martinez, Mohammed Choudhury, and Patti Radle are the new darlings of the national movement to privatize America’s public schools....
- Sep 27, 2018
- 5 min
Las Adquisiciones De Escuelas Chárter Deterioran El Sistema De Escuelas Públicas De San Antonio
Por Luke Amphlett La narrativa del Distrito Escolar Independiente de San Antonio sobre la integración de la escuela semiautónoma (mejor...
- Sep 3, 2018
- 5 min
What We Mean When We Say "Our Union"
By Luke Amphlett, David Garza, Alejandra Lopez, and Adrian Reyna. Our union is the democratically-elected, democratically-structured...
- Aug 10, 2018
- 6 min
For Public Control Of Public Schools
By Luke Amphlett For public schools to become the sites of liberation that they might be, we have to face their role in reproducing...
- Aug 3, 2018
- 3 min
San Antonio Educators Have Overwhelmingly Lost Faith In SAISD Leadership
If you care about public education, you should have too. According to the San Antonio Alliance of Teachers and Support Personnel, 77% of...