Guest Blogger
Principal, Summer Leadership Academy High Desert
Hesperia, California
Shannon Brandner has been principal since 2011 of Summit Leadership Academy High Desert, a charter high school in Hesperia, California. A native of Southern California, she has been in education for over 25 years. She started as a teachers aide, taught elementary school in Alhambra and Pasadena, then became administrator of a large charter school.
I know many teachers suffer from “reform fatigue.” So when Common Core was introduced, there was the inevitable pushback and…
I couldn’t believe it. Finally, education was going to take center stage at the 2020 Public Education Forum. All the major Democratic candidates (and some…
Over the last decade, and indeed for longer than that, those fighting for justice, many of them White, have largely looked to integration as the…
The Democratic party once embraced charter schools as a tool for equity and opportunity. Now, as Andre Perry points out in his recent op-ed, “Support…
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