The new Oakland Unified School District Board got off to a rocky start this year. (Stick with me. This is complicated.) In January, the city clerk declared the wrong person the winner of the District 4 election the previous November.
Last weekend, I met the present and future of education justice in Utah. Parents, students, organizers and activists came together to find consensus on the most important issues in their communities and build their organizing muscle to win. My privilege
Originally published in March 2022 Recently, a friend and I were debating the rhetoric around parents’ control over their children’s education. He felt strongly that to give parents a say in curriculum, lesson plans or strategies would be untenable nonsense.
