A new national study from the National Education Policy Center indicates that closing schools does not save money or improve education and has a differential impact on African-American students.   Host Kitty Kelly Epstein speaks with Professor Gail Sunderman and discusses the results.

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Host Kitty Kelly Epstein speaks with Faye Bonninger a research associate at the National Education Policy Center regarding her work around the surveillance of student’s in school and its impact on their education.

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Host Kitty Kelly Epstein speaks with parent organizer, Pecolia Manigo, about how a community coalition strongly influenced the school board to select a local educator as Oakland’s new Superintendent.

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Justice 4 Oakland Students leader, Pecolia Manigo, speaks with Kitty Kelly Epstein about successful struggle for a local committed educator to be hired as the new Superintendent.Justice 4 Oakland Students

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Hear Parents of African-American Students studying Chinese talk about sending their children to Mandarin bilingual programs. They also address a new public Mandarin Bilingual school enrolling students now in Richmond.  Then hear a parent organizer talk about organizing tens of thousands of parents in New Jersey to defeat Governor Chris Christie’s destructive policies toward public education in the state’

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