Author: Brenda Dickhoner

This week, news broke that the Colorado Education Association (CEA) — also known as the state’s largest teachers union — came out against capitalism with a resolution claiming that our free market system of economics is incompatible with fighting systemic racism, the patriarchy, educational inequality, and income inequality, amongst other societal ills. If any other…

Do Black students matter to school board members? Apparently not if you’re a school board member backed by the teachers union, if a recent charter school battle in Denver is any indication. At issue was a proposed charter school in Denver named 5280 Freedom School, which aims to focus its programming on intentionally serving Black…