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Don’t be afraid to deviate from the script

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When I was in the 11th grade, my family had to move suddenly from one part of Massachusetts to my grandparents’ house in Boston. My parents weren’t able to line up new housing or new business in another state as quickly as they hoped but they were steadily working on it. My parents had ambitious […]

For #BlackHistoryMonth let’s remember the racist history of school vouchers

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And we paid him not to Earlier in 2019 local investigative reporting showed that after four years and $40 million, the state’s voucher program- the Louisiana’s Scholarship Program- had produced not just ineffective but even negative student results. Specifically, the report showed that participating students generally had lower scores on state standardized tests than their […]