Guest Blogger
Policy and Research Director, Empower Illinois
Springfield, Illinios
Nathan C. Hoffman serves as Policy and Research Director for Empower Illinois. Nathan’s career has been rooted in advancing educational opportunity, quality and accountability. A native Illinoisan, Nathan was born and raised in Springfield and served a term on the Board of Directors for the Springfield Public Schools.
Attacks against private school options are frequent and fervent, but what happens when public school opportunities become the point of…
I swear I wasn’t trying to end Black History Month with white people and skinfolk that ain’t kinfolk foolery but … Yesterday my homie, Dr.…
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,…
A month ago, as Amanda Gorman shared her beautiful prose during President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ inauguration, students at KIPP Rise Academy in Newark had…
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