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The Post-Brown Realignment and the Structure of Partitioned Publics

Public schools are crucial infrastructures in the reproduction of social inequality

June 12, 2024 • by Ujju Aggarwal

Public schools are crucial infrastructures of the reproduction of social inequality and the US carceral state. ...

Worse Than Betsy DeVos? Outside Money Swamps 2020 School Board Elections

A national campaign to privatize public schools continues regardless of who is president

December 15, 2020 • by Jeff Bryant

When a Biden victory in the 2020 presidential election became certain, supporters of public education gleefully took to social media to say good riddance to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. DeVos came into office with an agenda to further the privatization of public education by expanding charter schools and ...

‘Our Readers Feel We Are on Their Side’

A Q&A with InsideSchools founder Clara Hemphill

June 16, 2019 • by Clara Hemphill

Urban Matters: Let’s start with InsideSchools. It’s immensely popular; it's web site gets more than 1.5 million annual visitors. Its individual school profiles have made it the first place many parents go for information about schools as well as about school policies and procedures. What makes InsideSchools work? Hemphill: People trust us. ...