Mike Klonsky's Blog

A little more than a decade ago, teacher union organizers in the midst of an organizing drive at a KIPP charter school in Brooklyn, used...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's been another violent weekend in Chicago, with at least 6 people killed and 32 others hurt in shootings acro...

DACA DEADLINE IS TODAY, AND NOTHING WILL HAPPEN: Today is the day that the protections for the “dreamers” begin expiring, and CNN reports t...

Thanks to reader Dienne (see comment below) for pointing out the role played by KIPP guru Seligman in developing interrogation technique...

KIPP padded cell for kindergartners Since their start in Houston in 1994, KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) charter schools have been th...

Don't miss Richard Kahlenberg's provacative piece in American Educator (Winter 2012-2013) which examines the roles of poverty and ...

Won't Back Down In Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and other cities, Democratic mayors have feuded bitterly with teachers’ union...

Dr. Cornell West "If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, he would be on Freedom Plaza." -- Upon his arrest in D.C. prot...

Charter schools for those with "highest potential" Robert Schwartz' s post today on Huffington, "Why Charters and Colleg...

Marcus Yam for The New York Times A sign at 168th St. and Broadway in Manhattan announcing enrollment for KIPP Star Elementary, a charter...

Think-tanker declares victory over unions Right-wing think-tanker and professional union-basher (used up my Friday hyphen quota), Jay Gree...

Ira Socol gets a little too personal for my taste, but his questions are tough and to the point (Schools Matter) . He's basically calli...

I love my i-phone as much as the next guy. I've been Tweeting all morning, haven't I? And here I am at 6 a.m., on a perfectly good ...

Thanks to those critics of bought-and-paid-for school research, EPIC/EPRU , for shining their  light on the latest KIPP study. Gary Miron...

John Arnold , 35, is a former Enron trader turned hedge fund manager. His employees include several big name energy traders including ex-Enr...

From Nola.com Though charter operators guard their autonomy, the trend toward clustering represents a kind of middle ground between traditio...

He's also a self-admitted apologist for KIPP , the nation's largest chain of business-model charter schools and one noted for its h...

James Forman, Jr. reviews two book and reflects on KIPP and the Harlem Children's Zone Before KIPP, there was Harlem’s Central Park Eas...

Charter school teachers in N.Y. have won and important battle in their efforts to unionize. Leo Casey at Edwize reports that the New York...

There's not much there there in Jennifer Medina's NYT piece today, " Charter Schools Weigh Freedom Against the Protection of ...