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 enroll...
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 Elec...
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 educati...
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, t...
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 mar...
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 c...
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...
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 ...
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. O...
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 s...
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 ch...
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...
Oct 29, 20182 minA Pro-Charter, Pro-Privatization Website Unveiled A Fawning Profile of Pedro Martinez And His TeamPedro Martinez, Mohammed Choudhury, and Patti Radle are the new darlings of the national movement to privatize America’s public schools. ...
Sep 27, 20185 minLas Adquisiciones De Escuelas Chárter Deterioran El Sistema De Escuelas Públicas De San AntonioPor Luke Amphlett La narrativa del Distrito Escolar Independiente de San Antonio sobre la integración de la escuela semiautónoma (mejor c...
Sep 16, 20182 minBelieve In Yourselves, Your Students, And Your Community, Even If Your Leaders Do Not.By Alejandra Lopez STAAR results came out recently and just as was projected Stewart Elementary moved out of “Improvement Required” statu...
Sep 3, 20185 minWhat 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 voic...
Aug 10, 20186 minFor 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 socia...
Aug 4, 20185 minSAISD Parents Have High Standards For Our Students And Our LeadersBy Sarah Sorensen As of July 1, the school formerly known as P.F. Stewart Elementary School in San Antonio Independent School District is...
Aug 3, 20183 minSan Antonio Educators Have Overwhelmingly Lost Faith In SAISD LeadershipIf you care about public education, you should have too. According to the San Antonio Alliance of Teachers and Support Personnel, 77% of ...
Aug 1, 20181 minEDUCACIÓN POPULARPublic education should seek to transform social reality. This site is dedicated to sharing and amplifying the voices of those committed ...
