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 Jemar Tisby is president of The Witness, an online website that is a black Christian collective that engages issues of religion, race, justice, and culture from a biblical perspective. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Color of Compromise. This engaging article makes it clear, Christians should care about public education.

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 The notion that it costs less to educate students with publicly funded private school vouchers than it does to educate them in traditional public schools ignores important realities that make voucher programs expensive, impractical and unsound. 

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 Join journalist Jennifer Berkshire and education historian Jack Schneider as they explore education policy and politics, one hot-button topic at a time. Listen to Have You Heard on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or anywhere else you listen to podcasts.   

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 Montana, like many other states, helps some students pay for tuition at private schools. But the rules for the schools that participate in its tax-credit scholarship program are scant: They do not have to hire teachers with college degrees or conduct criminal background checks on all their employees. Schools do not have to publicly report graduation rates or demonstrate that they are on sound financial footing. . . read on at the link below.

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/private-school-choice-programs-fall-short-on-transparency-accountability/2020/02

 Education historian Jack Schneider and journalist Jennifer Berkshire trace the war on public education to its origins, offering the deep backstory necessary to understand the threat presently posed to America's schools. The book also looks forward to imagining how current policy efforts will reshape the educational landscape and remake America's future. 

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 From one of the foremost authorities on education in the US, this book is an inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America’s public schools. 

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 The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many schools across the U.S. to temporarily shift to distance learning or a combination of online and in-person instruction until it’s safe for students and teachers to be in classrooms again. Even before the pandemic, many school districts used online programs to complement in-person teaching. But there are stark differences between districts using public resources to incorporate technology into effective teaching and learning on the one hand, and privatized, fully virtual education on the other.  

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This 5-minute video shares the problems with privatization in a variety of American life. https://youtu.be/0wYHRWo2Ins

 Research suggests increased spending on education can improve student outcomes, especially among low-income students. This means that targeted increases in funding could help narrow the achievement gap between poor and nonpoor students. But given the complexities of our school finance system, can policymakers actually direct funds to the students who need them most? 

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 We hear a lot from school choice leaders about how wonderful it is that some families have some educational choices beyond their neighborhood public schools — the public schools DeVos has flatly called a “dead end” — but we don’t hear about the financial scandals or the lack of transparency or public accountability that have resulted in many places.   

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