Guest Blogger
Attorney and Former Educator
Los Angeles, California
Halli Bayer is an attorney and former middle school English teacher. Since she left the classroom, she has been working in public education law, policy and funding. Halli lives in Los Angeles, California.
You know how Tom Hanks’ character in “A League of Their Own” insists that there’s “no crying in baseball”? For…
When was the last time you walked into a school and saw a rainbow of students of different races and…
Ramona Patrick is the founding principal of Citizens of the World, Silver Lake in Los Angeles. The Citizens of the…
Nick Melvoin is an ed reformer running to represent District 4 on the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board.…
I used to teach in a Los Angeles Unified school, so the Vergara court case about teacher tenure is not…
Across the entire United States, there aren’t nearly enough Black teachers inside classrooms. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, less than 7% of…
We know all too well Black and brown students in marginalized communities are now bearing the brunt of the pandemic’s effect on schools—with inadequate technology,…
There have been some good reasons to close schools over the past year—in the early days of the pandemic, for example, or during major weather…
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