A MARSHALL PLAN FOR SAVING AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
In the darkest days of the Trump administration there were many of us who doubted the concept and reality of public education would survive.
Trump’s Secretary of Education advocated for its destruction.
The pandemic, as in all things, has made it worse.
It was good to read in the New York Times that the Biden administration wants to reverse course on Betsy DeVos.
But that is not enough.
Public schools remain on life-support.
Teachers on the front lines of the pandemic are exhausted. Thousands are leaving the profession.
Local funding – never sufficient, particularly in Black and Brown communities – has CONTINUE READING: A Marshall Plan for saving American public schools. – Fred Klonsky