Unprecedented Collapse In Student Enrollment Under Patti Radle & Pedro Martinez
No other SAISD superintendent, and no other school board president have ever presided over such a catastrophic downturn in student...
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- Apr 22, 2019
- 3 min
Your 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...
- Mar 29, 2019
- 2 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...
- Mar 27, 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 21, 2019
- 2 min
216 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 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...
- Mar 8, 2019
- 5 min
SAISD Educators Endorse Candidates For Board Elections
A 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, 2019
- 5 min
The State of Our District: A Community Response
By 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, 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 17, 2018
- 2 min
Believe 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”...
- 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 4, 2018
- 5 min
SAISD Parents Have High Standards For Our Students And Our Leaders
By 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, 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...
- Aug 1, 2018
- 1 min
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