Jennifer Berkshire

1 month ago | barnraisingmedia.com | Joel Bleifuss |Justin Perkins |Jennifer Berkshire |Winona LaDuke

In her new role, Kleeb automatically becomes a DNC vice-chair at Martin’s side, part of a leadership team that says it will move the party in a bolder direction. In a December 19 Barn Raiser op-ed, Kleeb explained why she was supporting Martin for chair of the DNC and running for President of the ASDC.

1 month ago | educationwars.substack.com | Jennifer Berkshire

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1 month ago | jacobin.com | Jennifer Berkshire

When the Texas state House education committee held a hearing on a proposed voucher bill on March 11, parent Hollie Plemons was among the first people to arrive in the committee room. She’d spend much of the next twelve hours in the cramped, crowded space, waiting for her chance at the mic. And when her name was finally called, she didn’t hold back.

1 month ago | barnraisingmedia.com | Jennifer Berkshire |Winona LaDuke

Kristina Reser-Jaynes can still recall a time when she’d never heard of school vouchers. Then, a few years ago, the Kickapoo school district in Southwestern Wisconsin that her daughters attend confronted a challenge all too common in small rural communities these days: a declining number of kids. “I started looking into the causes of our declining enrollment and just trying to get better informed,” says Resar-Jaynes, 57, who grew up in this scenic corner of Wisconsin.

2 months ago | educationwars.substack.com | Jennifer Berkshire

If you read the coverage regarding this week’s ‘bloodbath’ at the Deparment of Education, there is little sense to be made of the savage layoffs and shuttering of whole units. In reports like this one, this one, and this particularly half-baked take, the general tone is a sort of ‘how could this be happening?’ bafflement. But there is a brutal logic to rendering much of the Department inoperable.