For more than seven years I have worked in education reform. The number of times friends, classmates, professors, and community members have asked me how I sleep at night are many. I started in this work because despite everything I know about privatization and its impact on low-income communities, I understood that the reform movement was giving an answer to…
Author: Joseph Butler
My President Is Black
My President is Black. President Obama may have given the BLACKEST speech of his presidency. There were shots fired at former Presidents, the bias justice system, and most importantly a miseducated America. It was a pleasure and a privilege to be at that moment, standing shoulder to shoulder with hundred upon thousands of my brothers and sisters as America finally…