Dirk Tillotson

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Founder and Executive Director, Great School Choices
Oakland, California
Featured Blog: Great School Voices
Blogger
Founder and Executive Director, Great School Choices
Oakland, California
Featured Blog: Great School Voices
This guest post is by an anonymous, Oakland-based educator. One time my mom tried to kill me. She chased me…
I am the fly in the school reform buttermilk. An outsider, now marginally on the inside, trying to plot the…
George Joseph’s article, What Betsy DeVos Didn’t Say About School Choice, claims that charter schools “have pushed more low-income, minority…
In Oakland, one of the highest achieving schools in the city is Hillcrest Elementary. It’s a “public” school that is…
Teacher training in the U.S. has been a crapshoot. Because when you’re hiring first year teachers, sometimes you say “crap”…
Late last month, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Superintendent Antwan Wilson was nominated to become the new school chief of D.C. Public Schools.…
Charters and unions are often seen as diametrically opposed. This isn’t really an accurate history.…
Black families support charter schools. That’s clear from a number of recent surveys on school choice. In the 2016 Education Next…
Most Black families support charter schools. It’s not because we’ve been duped, or that we’re “privatizers.” It’s because many of us…
Four hours in an expulsion hearing gives you time to think. And afterwards, you are wrapped tight. So it takes…
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