I testified at the School Reform Commission meeting yesterday about the District’s budget deficit. Here is the text of my testimony.

Naomi Klein, in her book The Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism lays out in considerable detail how right wing

Thursday’s move by the School Reform Commission to hire a Chief Recovery Officer who will be advised by an "outside team of

Thanks to the School District of Philadelphia’s budget cuts and staff reductions teachers like myself and my blog mate Timothy

Last year I named Arlene Ackerman – and her penchant for turning any piece of news into news about her

Earlier this week, I wrote about the need for a fresh start to the SRC and how frequently challenges can

There’s been favorable consensus about the new mayoral appointees to the School Reform Commission – Wendell Pritchett and Lorene Cary.

Battered by layoffs, cutbacks, and attacks on their unions, teachers are joining the Occupy Wall Street movement, standing with students,

This piece was originally published in the Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal. by Marc Mannella   This fall our colleagues in

Education stakeholders in Philadelphia, including the advocacy community, have grown used to having our decisions made for us behind closed doors.