This week we talk testing in New York, students taking up the education funding fight in Maine, State Superintendent Evers pushing Gov Walker to support public schools in Wisconsin and feature the Utah association president's thoughts on the 2013 legislative session. Read More

The U.S. Department of Education has blocked an attempt by Pennsylvania’s Education Secretary to evaluate state charter schools using a more lenient method for calculating Adequate Yearly Progress. Read More

New investigation from USA Today shows that online charter schools have spent almost $100 million in taxpayer dollars on advertising since 2007. Read More

This week we talk about standards being relaxed for charter schools Pennsylvania, Governor Malloy’s visit to a school in Bridgeport, Connecticut, a union commitment campaign in Wisconsin and feature an article from New Jersey on how this election will affect schools. Read More

On the 5th day of the Stop the Greed Agenda bus tour, teacherken visits Michigan and talks about Emergency Managers and Proposal 2, which would enshrine collective bargaining rights in the Constitution of Michigan. Read More

This week we talk about a training with 150 New York educators to learn about building community support and achieving success on homegrown issues; a vote by Washington educators to oppose a charter school ballot initiative; more than two dozen Texas State Teacher Association members, all younger than 40, who completed a training on organized, collective action; and the Louisiana Association of Educators’ letter to private and parochial schools, asking them to hold off on using money from new school voucher laws until a legal challenge of the laws has been finalized. Read More

Rally looks to stop corporate raid on Education Trust Fund and defeat bill that would give neighborhood school funds to out-of-state, for-profit charters Read More