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Homeschooling advocates see opportunity

Jeff Bryant - Independent Media Institute
FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2016 file photo, Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos speaks in Grand Rapids, Mich. Charter school advocate and wealthy Republican donor Betsy DeVos is widely expected to push for expanding school choice programs if confirmed as education secretary, causing outrage among teachers’ unions. But Democrats and rights activists also are raising concerns about how her conservative Christian beliefs and advocacy for family values might impact minority and LGBT students. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) (AP)

Charters push public ed to the limit

Jeff Bryant - Independent Media Institute
Thousands of teachers march in the rain through Los Angeles, California on January 14, 2019, on the first day of the first teachers strike in 30 years targeting the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

LA teachers on which battles are next

Julianne Tveten - In These Times
Thousands of teachers march in the rain through Los Angeles, California on January 14, 2019, on the first day of the first teachers strike in 30 years targeting the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

“Welcome to the revolution”

David Dayen - In These Times
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Betsy DeVos (AP/Susan Walsh)

School privatization took a beating

Jeff Bryant - Independent Media Institute
FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. Overdoses don't happen just to heroin addicts _ patients who legally use strong painkillers called opioids are at risk in the nation’s epidemic, too. A new study says when patients were prescribed an overdose antidote along with those medications, they made fewer painkiller-related visits to the emergency room. The study released on June 27, 2016, went a step further _ to see if the take-home antidote idea also could work for patients with chronic pain who may not realize they could accidentally get into trouble with prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin, Vicodin and others. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File) (AP)

Why the Oxycontin family loves charters

Sarah Darer Littman - Alternet
Students wait in line at ReNEW SciTech Academy, a charter school in New Orleans, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. Nine years after Hurricane Katrina, charter schools are the new reality of public education in New Orleans. The vast majority of public school students will be attending a charter school established by a state-run school district created in the wake of the storm. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (AP)

Charter schools challenge rural America

Jenny Robinson - Alternet
(AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

NAACP: No school privatization

Rann Miller - Alternet
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