Public vs Private Schools

  •  Parkland Institute Institute Conference our presentation
  • Des parallèles à tracer autour de l’école entre la France et le Québec
  • How are America’s public schools really doing?
  • Does Attendance in Private Schools Predict Student Outcomes at Age 15? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study
  • Are private schools better than public schools? Perception versus reality
  • Public schools losing out in political power plays
  • Extra $4 billion funding allows struggling private school to finally build 3rd swimming pool | The Chaser
  • ‘End education snobbery. There’s no out-of-work brickie or sparkie’ | Education | The Guardian
  • Are Private Schools Better than Public Schools? – IPE/BC
  • Community Schools Playbook
  • Private school edge has more to do with advantages the students bring.
  • The only way to end the class divide: the case for abolishing private schools | News | The Guardian
  • Does Attendance in Private Schools Predict Student Outcomes at Age 15? Evidence From a Longitudinal Study - Robert C. Pianta, Arya Ansari, 2018
  • No, private schools aren’t better at educating kids than public schools. Why this new study matters. - The Washington Post
  • Schools in rich areas are more than twice as likely to be 'outstanding'
  • Private school funding increase irks associations | Vue Weekly
  • Have We Lost Sight of the Promise of Public Schools?
  • Voters Widely Support Public Schools. So Why Is It So Hard to Pay for Them?
  • Dismal Voucher Results Surprise Researchers as DeVos Era Begins
  • https://economics.mit.edu/files/9518
    • THE ELITE ILLUSION: ACHIEVEMENT EFFECTS AT BOSTON AND NEW YORK EXAM SCHOOLS
  • Public school proponents push for budget cut to Alberta private schools | Edmonton Journal
  • Public school board lobbies for government to phase out private school funding
  • Funding Review Won't Include Amount of Money, Private Schools | The Tyee
  • Are Private Schools Immoral?
  • Revealed: The hidden cost of free schools
  • Losing Students, Private Schools Try to Change - WSJ
  • Global Education Reform: How Privatization and Public Investment Influence Education Outcomes
  • Academic Outcomes of Public and Private High School Students: What Lies Behind the Differences?
  • Do traditional public schools benefit from charter competition? - The Washington Post
  • NAACP sticks by its call for charter school moratorium, says they are ‘not a substitute’ for traditional public schools
  • Civics, Community, and Allyship: Why We Chose Our Local Public School – IntegratedSchools.org
  • Voucher Program Helps Well-Off Vermonters Pay for Prep School at Public Expense - ProPublica
  • Campaign to defund private schools backed by NDP: Kenney
  • Public Schools Aren’t Failing Us. We’re Failing Our Schools (And Our Kids).
  • The Impact of Charters on Neighborhood Schools - Simply Told - Network For Public Education
  • Worldwide, School Choice Hasn’t Improved Performance

    • Privatization

  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2018/08/13/how-to-profit-from-your-non-profit-charter-school/#551b6b0e3354
  • Talking Across The Pond About Ed Reform 2.0
  • When Communities Lose Their Public Schools For Good, What Happens To The Students? Michigan May Soon Find Out.
  • Bezos to launch network of preschools: 'The child will be the customer'
  • A Layperson’s Guide to the ‘Destroy Public Education’ Movement
  • Analysis | What and who are fueling the movement to privatize public education — and why you should care
  • How ‘segrenomics’ underpins the movement to privatize public education - The Washington Post
  • CURMUDGUCATION: Progressives and the DeVosian Embrace
  • Commericalising education: profiting from reform!: Journal of Education Policy: Vol 33, No 5
  • Winning Battles on Education - Progressive.org
  • Philip Pullman attacks 'monstrous' English education policy | Books | The Guardian
  • Charter school founded by Southwest Key wants to educate immigrant kids housed at the nonprofit's shelters | Education | Dallas News
  • Privatization Report Card - Network For Public Education
  • How Money Matters for Schools
  • Think-tank calls for increased private school enrolment in Alberta
  • Greg Thompson | EduResearch Matters The Creeping Commercialisation of Public Schools
  • Patti Bacchus: Will we ever stop funding private schools? | Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly
  • Dan Cohen: The spread of education reform models
  • Danielle Smith: Maybe we need to defund public schools | Globalnews.ca
  • Should the Government of Alberta be funding private schools? | Foothills School Division
  • Editorial: Private schools save money
  • When schools look like resorts questions about funding must be asked
  • What school has $42 million in the bank but still gets $5 million a year in public subsidies? Webber Academy
  • Trimble: Public schools need to get their own system in order | Calgary Herald
  • Time to start 'phasing out' funding for private schools, says trustee on Edmonton public board
  • Private School Tax Deductions and Credits
  • MacLeod and Clemens: Increased funding for independent schools is unlikely to improve education
  • Tran-Davies: Education minister needs to do his homework on failing math policies | Calgary Herald
  • Opinion: Failure to properly teach math disenfranchises at-risk youth – Vancouver Sun
  • How Jeb Bush's Florida Plan for School 'Choice' Created an Industry of Corruption and Chaos | Alternet
  • Inside Silicon Valley’s Big-Money Push to Remake American Education – Mother Jones
  • Elizabeth Farrelly: Why private schools should be banned
  • The Expansion of McTutor World: What’s Diving the Private Tutoring Explosion?
  • How Silicon Valley Plans to Conquer the Classroom
  • How closing public schools undermines democracy - Salon.com
  • The “Polite Revolution”: What Can Canadian Educators Learn from researchED?
  • Betsy DeVos Thinks Schools Are Like Food Trucks. Seriously. Read What She Said. – Mother Jones
  • http://www.erpjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ERPV35-2_MacKay-B.-Firmin-M.-2008.-The-historical-development-of-private-education in Alberta
  • School Vouchers: Transubstantiate Your Cash For Fun and Profit | gadflyonthewallblog
  • The Privatization Prophets
  • Head to the school gate – and see how politics is failing our children | Gaby Hinsliff | Opinion | The Guardian
  • Parents turning to tutors as class sizes swell - Calgary - CBC News
  • School fees a Klein legacy | Vue Weekly
  • Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
  • Neoliberalism and the Non-Profit Social Services Sector in Alberta
  • Editorial: Public funding of private schools is a smart policy
  • Schooling, privatisation and post-truth politics | Unite for Quality Education

    • School Choice

  • https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/the-untold-history-of-charter-schools/
  • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268044756_THE_DARK_PROMISE_OF_CHARTER_SCHOOLS
  • Building Charter School Identity | Research @ Werklund
  • When ‘School Choice’ Means the Opposite
  • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304716679_Kowch_E_Gereluk_D_Thompson_M_2014_The_Impact_Capacity_and_Adaptability_of_the_Alberta_Public_Charter_School_System_Calgary_AB_TAAPCS
  • https://www.edcan.ca/articles/the-alberta-public-charter-school-system/
  • https://progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/its-time-to-talk-about-charter-school-privilege-robinson-190318/
  • The best choice for your child's school is most likely the local school
  • Ottewell Junior High students lobby minister, school trustees for more high schools
  • https://soundcloud.com/haveyouheardpodcast/dna-test-the-ancestry-of-charter-schools
  • Opinion: The myth of school choice
  • United Conservative Party Defend School Choice
  • School Choice is a Lie. It Does Not Mean More Options. It Means Less. | gadflyonthewallblog
  • https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/19/school-choice-some-parents-are-prepared-to-pay-but-is-society
  • Episode 67: Charter Schools and Progressive Values: A Lesson for Democrats | BustED Pencils
  • https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/why-we-don-t-need-more-selective-schools-20190605-p51uqo.html
  • Independent religious schools, parents challenge gay-straight alliance bill – Edmonton Journal
  • Many parents face disappointment over primary school places | Education | The Guardian
  • What’s your Grade 9 plan? Students, educators wrestle over streaming | Windsor Star
  • Parents brave cold for limited spots at Royal Vale School - Montreal - CBC News
  • “National School Choice Week” Gives You No Choice At All - Progressive.org
  • Expanding High-Quality Educational Options for All Students: How States Can Create a System of Schools Worth Choosing
  • School’s out: What happens to a community when students leave their neighbourhood schools?
  • http://www.taapcs.ca/pdf/The%20Politics%20of%20Educational%20Reform_Bosetti%20&%20Butterfield.pdf The Politics Of Educational Reform: The Alberta Charter School Experiment 20 Years Later
  • A broad spectrum of choices
  • The Troubled History of School Choice – AAIHS
  • Russ on Reading: School Choice: An Ugly Idea
  • Evidence Mounts That School Choice Isn't Delivering Promised Results, Not That K-12 Privateers Are Listening | Alternet
  • Three big problems with school ‘choice’ that supporters don’t like to talk about
  • The Broken Promises of Choice in New York City Schools - NYTimes.com
  • The masquerade of school choice: a parent’s story
  • Trump seeks to slash Education Department but make big push for school choice
  • Teacher: What school ‘choice’ looks like from my classroom
  • Private school pupils are having to take 'empathy lessons' because they don't understand the world
  • Sweden school choice: The country’s disastrous experiment with Milton Friedman and vouchers.
  • Four new science programs proposed amid growing demand for STEM education | Calgary Herald

    • Equity

  • UBC Press | The Equity Myth - Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities By Frances Henry By Enakshi Dua By Carl E. James By Audrey Kobayashi By Peter Li By Howard Ramos By Malinda S. Smith
  • Does Teacher Diversity Matter in Student Learning?
  • One of the Best Ways to Protect LGBTQ Students Might Be Fighting for School Choice
  • Jason Kenney Headlined an Education Conference Sponsored By Homophobic and Creationist Fringe Groups
  • Rural Alberta schools need further supports - Ponoka News
  • What Does “Revolution” Look Like in Education? - Progressive.org
  • Community Schools: A Powerful Strategy to Disrupt Inequitable Systems
  • Canada's children have high rates of suicide, abuse, infant mortality: report | CBC News
  • NAIS - The Influence of Affluence
  • Study: Poor Kids Who Believe in Meritocracy Suffer - The Atlantic
  • Why the principal in the viral video of Upper West Side integration debate believes in school diversity
  • Program Overlap Matrix
  • Research: Grammar schools do not do better and should be scrapped
  • Cooking classes connect families, community at Brandon's Betty Gibson School - Manitoba - CBC News
  • Opinion | The Misguided Drive to Measure ‘Learning Outcomes’ - The New York Times
  • Stuck in the past: the UK needs to produce creative thinkers not exam-passing machines
  • Eastglen tracks its students to steer them to graduation
  • ‘Drill and kill’? English schools turn to scripted lessons to raise standards
  • Passive Oppression in Education: Fueling the Achievement Gap
  • Disengaged by Design: The Neoconservative War on Youth - Long View on Education
  • The Testing Charade | Ed Magazine
  • The Psychology of Inequality | The New Yorker
  • The clues that could explain our falling PISA marks
  • The Children Must Play
  • The Inequity of the Traditional Grading System - Aaron Daffern
  • ‘Working-class children get less of everything in education - including respect’ | Education | The Guardian
  • https://www.teachers.ab.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/ATA/Publications/Research/COOR-101-3%20Renewing%20Albertas%20Promise.pdf A Great School For All
  • Public Education ‘School Fees’: A Look at What Parents Are Paying Across Canada | The Tyee
  • Results drive in schools damaging pupils’ mental health | News
  • Why School Sucks (hint: it’s not because it’s “boring”)
  • Here’s an Idea: Guarantee Every Child an Excellent Education – gadflyonthewallblog
  • Community Schools: An Evidence-Based Strategy for Equitable School Improvement
  • Why Care About Other People’s Children | gadflyonthewallblog
  • The Great Hope: Kindergarten and Community – Katie Mgongolwa
  • https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/32507/1/Pistiolis_Ioanna_V_201206_MA_thesis.pdfThe Results and Implications of Fundraising in Elementary Public Schools: Interviews with Ontario Principals
  • Forget chocolate bars - companies pitch new fundraising schemes to schools
  • Rural Ontario school closings hit communities hard  | Toronto Star
  • 'There's got to be a better way': bus funding model makes rural schools inaccessible

    • School Choice & Segregation

  • Charlottesville’s Other Jim Crow Legacy: Separate and Unequal Education
  • Writer Nikole Hannah-Jones issues a challenge to parents in Philadelphia and beyond | The notebook
  • Georgia’s Separate and Unequal Special-Education System
  • White progressive parents and the conundrum of privilege
  • Toronto is segregated by race and income. And the numbers are ugly | The Star
  • La ségrégation scolaire au secondaire, une dérive largement ignorée | Le Devoir
  • A school divided: What French immersion has done to Suddaby | KitchenerPost.ca
  • How French immersion has created a two-tier education system | TheRecord.com
  • Opinion | How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools - The New York Times
  • Episode 8 – Gentrification, Segregation, and Education – a deLayed teacher
  • Black students in Toronto streamed into courses below their ability, report finds | CBC News
  • Elite Schools Make Few Offers to Black and Latino Students
  • The Broken Promises of Choice in New York City Schools
  • Mandarin bilingual program expands to south Calgary middle school - Calgary - CBC News
  • Ontario school data shed light on effects of math-class divisions - The Globe and Mail
  • In push for funding, Ontario’s Catholic school boards enrolling more non-Catholics - The Globe and Mail
  • Just say ‘non’: The problem with French immersion - Macleans.ca
  • Le Devoir | Nouvelles, actualités, politique, culture et chroniques
  • Kindergarten registration could see some students facing lotteries to access school of choice | Calgary Herald
  • Proposed tests for reception children ‘verging on the immoral’ | Education | The Guardian
  • Badass Teachers Association: The Different Flavors of School Segregation by Steven Singer
  • Opinion: Most Albertans see benefit of public funding for religious schools – Edmonton Journal
  • Setting up a Skills Academy
  • Millions of extra dollars go to Indianapolis magnet schools that have fewer poor students | Chalkbeat
  • Toronto school board’s draft proposal to 'reform' gifted program has parents worried
  • Toronto school board mulls end to specialized schools in order to reduce learning disparities - The Globe and Mail
  • How Does School Choice Impact Our Neighbourhood Schools? – The Wejr Board
  • Educational opportunity in Australia 2015 - Mitchell Institute
  • Australian education fails one in four young people – but not the wealthy ones
  • Advocates devastated with province’s rejection of new school for students with learning disabilities | Calgary Herald
  • More Choice, Less Education - Alberta Views - The Magazine for Engaged Citizens
  • The Department of Justice Is Overseeing the Resegregation of American Schools | The Nation
  • Education by the Numbers - NYTimes.com
  • ‘The Way to Survive It Was to Make A’s’ - NYTimes.com
  • Who Benefits From the Expansion of A.P. Classes? - NYTimes.com
  • Michigan Gambled on Charter Schools. Its Children Lost. - NYTimes.com
  • The Resegregation of Jefferson County - NYTimes.com
  • ‘I wasn’t comfortable’: Being a student of color in Garfield High's advanced classes | KUOW News and Information
  • Hothoused and hyper-racialised: the ethnic imbalance in our selective schools | Christina Ho | Opinion | The Guardian
  • The real reason we send our kids to French Immersion
  • The Problem With French Immersion - Looking UpLooking Up
  • Where Did All The Integrated Schools Go? Why Segregation is Still Bad | gadflyonthewallblog
  • Graphic Essay: Betsy DeVos' 'School Choice' Movement Isn't Social Justice. It's a Return to Segregation.
  • School choice is a scam in segregated neighborhoods | Chicago Reporter
  • School Choice: Politics of Opportunity and Identity
  • Toronto’s art school students mostly white, from high-income families, study finds | Toronto Star
  • How Rich Parents Can Exacerbate School Inequality
  • As Fewer Kids Attend Neighborhood Schools, Transportation Challenges Intensify
  • BridgeBetsy DeVos and the segregation of school choice
  • Mapping 'White Flight' Into Charter Schools
  • NLPS expresses concerns regarding education choices in rural Alberta
  • Truth: Why vouchers and school choice were created
  • Grammar schools offer ‘pitifully few’ places to poorer children
  • Class divide: As French immersion booms, English classrooms shrink

    • Education Apartheid

  • Recipe for education apartheid
  • Educational apartheid is Scotland’s greatest national disgrace | Coffee House
  • Is Spain sleepwalking into educational apartheid? | World news | The Guardian

    • Racism

  • Voters send 7 new trustees to a York School Board grappling with racism
  • Racism in schools is not pass or fail | The Star
  • 'Diversity of Thought' is not the problem - Long View on Education
  • Teachers' implicit bias against black students starts in preschool, study finds | World news | The Guardian
  • Eugenics and the Modern Conservative Movement – AAIHS
  • Toby Young: what is 'progressive eugenics' and what does it have to do with meritocracy?
  • US charter schools put growing numbers in racial isolation
  • 'Haven’t changed a thing:' Private school much the same despite prayer appeal
  • Opinion: Webber Academy case about discrimination, not secularism
  • Black students hindered by academic streaming, suspensions: Report | Toronto Star
  • Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s education chief, is living proof white people haven’t gotten over Brown v. Board of Education

    • Governance

  • #52: Teachers are Running for Office - And to Save Public Education by Have You Heard
  • Alberta Liberal Leader David Khan challenges NDP education record
  • Greetings from the Minister of Education, the Honourable David Eggen
  • The Funding of Independent Schools in Alberta
  • How to Sustain Community Schools − The Partnership for the Future of Learning Publishes New How-To Guide
  • Building an Education System that Works for Everyone: Funding Reforms to Help All Our Children Thrive - MassBudget
  • School Board Courage - Long View on Education
  • United Conservative Party Constitutional Document 2 - Member Policy Declaration - V2.0 (Member Proposal Consolidation)
  • http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/themes/5532a70aebad640927000001/attachments/original/1429634829/Alberta_NDP_Platform_2015.pdf?1429634829 Alberta NDP 2015 Election Platform
  • Province urged to overhaul ‘flawed’ approach to funding education | Toronto Star
  • Follow the Money - Political Donations Database | National Post
  • Allison Hanes: Quebec Education minister’s vision of the future is refreshing | Montreal Gazette
  • New Zealand: Government announces end of charter schools
  • Public education: a right that the Portuguese will fight to defend | Unite for Quality Education
  • Silva and Blasetti: NDP needs to review how it funds schools
  • Answers for David Seymour
  • Finland thinks it has designed the perfect school. This is what it looks like | World Economic Forum
  • Metro News Nova Scotia School Board Disbanding
  • Province working with local school districts to build community hubs at future school sites | Calgary Herald
  • https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2017/12/Blasetti%3ASilva.pdf -Recommitting to Public Education, Silva&Blasetti
  • Eva Moskowitz’s Plan for Education - The Atlantic
  • How Education Reform Ate the Democratic Party | Jennifer C. Berkshire
  • Paradoxes of the Finland Phenomenon
  • NCEE | Finland: System and School Organization
  • Union City Public Schools
  • Rethinking Equity - Creating a Great School for All
  • The Politics of Educational Reform in Alberta
  • Educational Reform: Failing the Grade - Alberta Views - The Magazine for Engaged Citizens
  • Books or Band? - Alberta Views - The Magazine for Engaged Citizens
  • Overhauling Everything Schools Teach Kids - Alberta Views - The Magazine for Engaged Citizens
  • What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - The Atlantic
  • Rethinking Schools in the DeVos Era - Open Source with Christopher Lydon
  • Seriously Mom: Alberta's tone deaf Bill 1 a.k.a. Ignoring the Elephants
  • To Advance Education, We Must First Reimagine Society | MindShift | KQED News
  • The Problem With Public Schools Isn’t Low Test Scores. It’s Strategic Disinvestment.
  • Budget Austerity Treats Public-School Parents Like Criminals | OurFuture.org
  • Thoughts on the election and education, French immersion spaces, a little yellow school house, and bans - Page 2 | Vancouver Observer - Page 1
  • https://populardemocracy.org/sites/default/files/Roosevelt-Community-Schools-Profile_Web%20(1).pdf Community Schools Problem Solvers
  • Unwrapping Charter School Titles: Where’s the Innovation?
  • Fundraising leads to growing inequity among Alberta schools: report
  • School fees in Alberta triple in five years – Calgary Herald
  • Municipal Affairs: Education Property Tax - Facts and Information 2018
  • What Conservatives Get Wrong about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • School Governance in Crisis: Who is Left to Hold School Authorities Accountable?
  • How Finland broke every rule — and created a top school system - The Hechinger Report
    • Public vs Private Schools
    <li><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/voucher-program-helps-well-off-vermonters-pay-prep-school-at-public-expense"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Voucher Program Helps Well-Off Vermonters Pay for Prep School at Public Expense - ProPublica</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://m.metronews.ca/#/article/news/calgary/2017/05/11/campaign-to-defund-private-schools-backed-by-ndp-kenney.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Campaign to defund private schools backed by NDP: Kenney</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.scarymommy.com/public-schools-arent-failing-us-were-failing-our-schools-kids/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Schools Aren’t Failing Us. We’re Failing Our Schools (And Our Kids).</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://networkforpubliceducation.org/2016/05/6519/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Impact of Charters on Neighborhood Schools - Simply Told - Network For Public Education</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2017-01-30/little-global-evidence-suggests-school-choice-helps-performance"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Worldwide, School Choice Hasn’t Improved Performance</span></li></a>
    <h1 style="text-align: center;"><b>Privatization</b></h1>
    <li><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2018/08/13/how-to-profit-from-your-non-profit-charter-school/#551b6b0e3354">https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2018/08/13/how-to-profit-from-your-non-profit-charter-school/#551b6b0e3354</li></a>

    <li><a href="https://wrenchinthegears.com/2018/10/13/talking-across-the-pond-about-ed-reform-2-0/amp/?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Talking Across The Pond About Ed Reform 2.0</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://educationopportunitynetwork.org/when-communities-lose-their-public-schools-for-good-what-happens-to-the-students-michigan-may-soon-find-out/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Communities Lose Their Public Schools For Good, What Happens To The Students? Michigan May Soon Find Out.</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/406514-bezos-to-launch-network-of-preschools-the-child-will-be-the-customer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bezos to launch network of preschools: 'The child will be the customer'</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://obrag.org/2018/09/a-laypersons-guide-to-the-destroy-public-education-movement/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Layperson’s Guide to the ‘Destroy Public Education’ Movement</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/05/30/what-and-who-is-fueling-the-movement-to-privatize-public-education-and-why-you-should-care/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2961f0ef2b97"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Analysis | What and who are fueling the movement to privatize public education — and why you should care</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/01/19/how-segrenomics-underpins-the-movement-to-privatize-public-education/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.88f6d89895bf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How ‘segrenomics’ underpins the movement to privatize public education - The Washington Post</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2018/06/progressives-and-devosian-embrace.html?m=1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CURMUDGUCATION: Progressives and the DeVosian Embrace</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02680939.2018.1467599#.Wu_jij07zak.twitter"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Commericalising education: profiting from reform!: Journal of Education Policy: Vol 33, No 5</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://progressive.org/magazine/winning-battles-on-education/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Winning Battles on Education - Progressive.org</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/06/philip-pullman-attacks-monstrous-english-education-policy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Philip Pullman attacks 'monstrous' English education policy | Books | The Guardian</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2018/06/24/charter-school-founded-southwest-key-wants-educate-immigrant-kids-housed-nonprofits-shelters"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charter school founded by Southwest Key wants to educate immigrant kids housed at the nonprofit's shelters | Education | Dallas News</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://networkforpubliceducation.org/privatization-report-card/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Privatization Report Card - Network For Public Education</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/how-money-matters-report"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Money Matters for Schools</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/think-tank-calls-for-increased-private-school-enrolment-in-alberta/amp?fbclid=IwAR0MPIv9XswajzFE8w1HE30SV4rP8Ej-kdt_x7NqKNBqJkjWmSoq0kK5fmQ&__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Think-tank calls for increased private school enrolment in Alberta</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?tag=greg-thompson"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Greg Thompson | EduResearch Matters </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Creeping Commercialisation of Public Schools</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.straight.com/news/1048241/patti-bacchus-will-we-ever-stop-funding-private-schools"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Patti Bacchus: Will we ever stop funding private schools? | Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.grad.ubc.ca/campus-community/meet-our-students/cohen-dan"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dan Cohen: The spread of education reform models</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/4067888/danielle-smith-maybe-we-need-to-defund-public-schools/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Danielle Smith: Maybe we need to defund public schools | Globalnews.ca</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.fsd38.ab.ca/view.php?action=object&id=83&stream=FSD%20Leadership%20Blogs"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Should the Government of Alberta be funding private schools? | Foothills School Division</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://calgaryherald.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-private-schools-save-money"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Editorial: Private schools save money</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://amp.smh.com.au/national/nsw/when-schools-look-like-resorts-questions-about-funding-must-be-asked-20180221-p4z14r.html?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When schools look like resorts questions about funding must be asked</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.progressalberta.ca/webber-academy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What school has $42 million in the bank but still gets $5 million a year in public subsidies? Webber Academy</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/trimble-public-schools-need-to-get-their-own-system-in-order"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trimble: Public schools need to get their own system in order | Calgary Herald</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4542103"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Time to start 'phasing out' funding for private schools, says trustee on Edmonton public board</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.ourkids.net/private-school-tax-deductions.php"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Private School Tax Deductions and Credits</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/macleod-and-clemens-increased-funding-for-independent-schools-is-unlikely-to-improve-education"><span style="font-weight: 400;">MacLeod and Clemens: Increased funding for independent schools is unlikely to improve education</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/tran-davies-education-minister-needs-to-do-his-homework-on-failing-math-policies"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tran-Davies: Education minister needs to do his homework on failing math policies | Calgary Herald</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-failure-to-properly-teach-math-disenfranchises-at-risk-youth/amp?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opinion: Failure to properly teach math disenfranchises at-risk youth – Vancouver Sun</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.alternet.org/education/how-jeb-bushs-florida-plan-school-choice-created-industry-corruption-and-chaos?amp&__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Jeb Bush's Florida Plan for School 'Choice' Created an Industry of Corruption and Chaos | Alternet</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/11/inside-silicon-valleys-big-money-push-to-remake-american-education/#"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inside Silicon Valley’s Big-Money Push to Remake American Education – Mother Jones</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/comment/elizabeth-farrelly-why-private-schools-should-be-banned-20171207-h010p1.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elizabeth Farrelly: Why private schools should be banned</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://educhatter.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/the-expansion-of-mctutor-world-whats-diving-the-private-tutoring-explosion/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Expansion of McTutor World: What’s Diving the Private Tutoring Explosion?</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/technology/silicon-valley-baltimore-schools.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Silicon Valley Plans to Conquer the Classroom</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.salon.com/2017/11/09/how-closing-public-schools-undermines-democracy_partner/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How closing public schools undermines democracy - Salon.com</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://educhatter.wordpress.com/2017/11/06/the-polite-revolution-what-can-canadian-educators-learn-from-researched/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “Polite Revolution”: What Can Canadian Educators Learn from researchED?</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/09/betsy-devos-thinks-schools-are-like-food-trucks-seriously-read-what-she-said/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Betsy DeVos Thinks Schools Are Like Food Trucks. Seriously. Read What She Said. – Mother Jones</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.erpjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ERPV35-2_MacKay-B.-Firmin-M.-2008.-The-historical-development-of-private-education.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://www.erpjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ERPV35-2_MacKay-B.-Firmin-M.-2008.-The-historical-development-of-private-education in Alberta</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/school-vouchers-transubstantiate-your-cash-for-fun-and-profit/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">School Vouchers: Transubstantiate Your Cash For Fun and Profit | gadflyonthewallblog</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/education-privatization-charters-public-schools-betsy-devos"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Privatization Prophets</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/13/tory-grammar-schools-labour-investment-politics-failing-our-children?CMP=twt_gu"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Head to the school gate – and see how politics is failing our children | Gaby Hinsliff | Opinion | The Guardian</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/calgary/parents-turning-to-tutors-as-class-sizes-swell-1.1347825"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parents turning to tutors as class sizes swell - Calgary - CBC News</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.vueweekly.com/school-fees-a-klein-legacy/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">School fees a Klein legacy | Vue Weekly</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot?0p19G=c"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.parklandinstitute.ca/neoliberalism_and_the_non_profit_social_services_sector_in_alberta"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Neoliberalism and the Non-Profit Social Services Sector in Alberta</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://theprovince.com/opinion/editorial-public-funding-of-private-schools-is-a-smart-policy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Editorial: Public funding of private schools is a smart policy</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.unite4education.org/global-response/schooling-privatisation-and-post-truth-politics/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Schooling, privatisation and post-truth politics | Unite for Quality Education</span></li></a>
    <h1 style="text-align: center;"><b>School Choice</b></h1>
    <li><a href="https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/the-untold-history-of-charter-schools/">https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/the-untold-history-of-charter-schools/</li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268044756_THE_DARK_PROMISE_OF_CHARTER_SCHOOLS">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268044756_THE_DARK_PROMISE_OF_CHARTER_SCHOOLS</li></a>

    <li><a href="http://werklundresearch.ucalgaryblogs.ca/charter-school-identity/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building Charter School Identity | Research @ Werklund</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-10-11/charter-schools-when-school-choice-means-the-opposite"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When ‘School Choice’ Means the Opposite</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304716679_Kowch_E_Gereluk_D_Thompson_M_2014_The_Impact_Capacity_and_Adaptability_of_the_Alberta_Public_Charter_School_System_Calgary_AB_TAAPCS">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304716679_Kowch_E_Gereluk_D_Thompson_M_2014_The_Impact_Capacity_and_Adaptability_of_the_Alberta_Public_Charter_School_System_Calgary_AB_TAAPCS</li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.edcan.ca/articles/the-alberta-public-charter-school-system/">https://www.edcan.ca/articles/the-alberta-public-charter-school-system/</li></a>

    <li><a href="https://progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/its-time-to-talk-about-charter-school-privilege-robinson-190318/">https://progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/its-time-to-talk-about-charter-school-privilege-robinson-190318/</li></a>

    <li><a href="https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/the-best-choice-for-your-childs-school-is-most-likely-the-local-school"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The best choice for your child's school is most likely the local school</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/ottewell-junior-high-students-lobby-minister-school-trustees-for-more-high-schools"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ottewell Junior High students lobby minister, school trustees for more high schools</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://soundcloud.com/haveyouheardpodcast/dna-test-the-ancestry-of-charter-schools">https://soundcloud.com/haveyouheardpodcast/dna-test-the-ancestry-of-charter-schools</li></a>

    <li><a href="https://leaderpost.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-the-myth-of-school-choice"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opinion: The myth of school choice</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://unitedconservative.ca/Content/Petition/DefendSchoolChoice"><span style="font-weight: 400;">United Conservative Party Defend School Choice</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://gadflyonthewallblog.com/2017/10/06/school-choice-is-a-lie-it-does-not-mean-more-options-it-means-less/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">School Choice is a Lie. It Does Not Mean More Options. It Means Less. | gadflyonthewallblog</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/19/school-choice-some-parents-are-prepared-to-pay-but-is-society">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/19/school-choice-some-parents-are-prepared-to-pay-but-is-society</li></a>

    <li><a href="https://bustedpencils.com/episode/episode-67-charter-schools-and-progressive-values-a-lesson-for-democrats/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Episode 67: Charter Schools and Progressive Values: A Lesson for Democrats | BustED Pencils</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/why-we-don-t-need-more-selective-schools-20190605-p51uqo.html">https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/why-we-don-t-need-more-selective-schools-20190605-p51uqo.html</li></a>

    <li><a href="http://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/independent-religious-schools-parents-challenge-gay-straight-alliance-bill/amp?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Independent religious schools, parents challenge gay-straight alliance bill – Edmonton Journal</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2018/apr/16/many-parents-face-disappointment-over-primary-school-places?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many parents face disappointment over primary school places | Education | The Guardian</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/whats-your-grade-9-plan-students-educators-wrestle-over-high-school-streaming"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What’s your Grade 9 plan? Students, educators wrestle over streaming | Windsor Star</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/montreal/registration-royal-vale-emsb-1.3968298"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parents brave cold for limited spots at Royal Vale School - Montreal - CBC News</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/national-school-choice-week-no-choice-at-all-180123/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“National School Choice Week” Gives You No Choice At All - Progressive.org</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/expanding-high-quality-options-report"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Expanding High-Quality Educational Options for All Students: How States Can Create a System of Schools Worth Choosing</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/calgary/School+What+happens+community+when+students+leave+their+neighbourhood+schools/9144683/story.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">School’s out: What happens to a community when students leave their neighbourhood schools?</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.taapcs.ca/pdf/The%20Politics%20of%20Educational%20Reform_Bosetti%20&%20Butterfield.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://www.taapcs.ca/pdf/The%20Politics%20of%20Educational%20Reform_Bosetti%20&%20Butterfield.pdf </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Politics Of Educational Reform: The Alberta Charter School Experiment 20 Years Later</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/broad+spectrum+choices/4497199/story.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A broad spectrum of choices</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.aaihs.org/the-troubled-history-of-school-choice/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Troubled History of School Choice – AAIHS</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://russonreading.blogspot.ca/2017/06/school-choice-ugly-idea.html?m=1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Russ on Reading: School Choice: An Ugly Idea</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/evidence-mounts-school-choice-isnt-delivering-promised-results-not-k-12-privateers-are"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Evidence Mounts That School Choice Isn't Delivering Promised Results, Not That K-12 Privateers Are Listening | Alternet</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/05/03/three-big-problems-with-school-choice-that-supporters-dont-like-to-talk-about/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Three big problems with school ‘choice’ that supporters don’t like to talk about</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/nyregion/school-choice-new-york-city-high-school-admissions.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0&referer=https://t.co/BsBCAupHAU"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Broken Promises of Choice in New York City Schools - NYTimes.com</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/04/01/the-masquerade-of-school-choice-a-parents-story/?utm_term=.2606d06f61a4"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The masquerade of school choice: a parent’s story</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trump-seeks-to-slash-education-department-but-make-big-push-for-school-choice/2017/03/15/63b8b6f8-09a1-11e7-b77c-0047d15a24e0_story.html?u&utm_term=.ec9b1b85e30a"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trump seeks to slash Education Department but make big push for school choice</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/03/07/teacher-what-school-choice-looks-like-from-my-classroom/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teacher: What school ‘choice’ looks like from my classroom</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/andrew-halls-kings-college-school-wimbledon-private-school-pupils-to-take-empathy-lessons-as-a7612211.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Private school pupils are having to take 'empathy lessons' because they don't understand the world</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_dismal_science/2014/07/sweden_school_choice_the_country_s_disastrous_experiment_with_milton_friedman.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sweden school choice: The country’s disastrous experiment with Milton Friedman and vouchers.</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/four-new-science-programs-proposed-amid-growing-demand-for-stem-education"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Four new science programs proposed amid growing demand for STEM education | Calgary Herald</span></li></a>
    <h1 style="text-align: center;"><b>Equity</b></h1>
    <li><a href="https://www.ubcpress.ca/the-equity-myth"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UBC Press | The Equity Myth - Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities By Frances Henry By Enakshi Dua By Carl E. James By Audrey Kobayashi By Peter Li By Howard Ramos By Malinda S. Smith</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/upshot/teacher-diversity-effect-students-learning.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Does Teacher Diversity Matter in Student Learning? </span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://educationpost.org/one-of-the-best-ways-to-protect-lgbtq-students-might-be-fighting-for-school-choice/?utm_campaign=EP&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1538757707"><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the Best Ways to Protect LGBTQ Students Might Be Fighting for School Choice</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://pressprogress.ca/jason-kenney-headlined-an-education-conference-sponsored-by-homophobic-and-creationist-fringe-groups/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jason Kenney Headlined an Education Conference Sponsored By Homophobic and Creationist Fringe Groups</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.ponokanews.com/news/rural-alberta-schools-need-further-supports/amp/?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rural Alberta schools need further supports - Ponoka News</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/education-needs-more-than-a-superficial-revolution/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What Does “Revolution” Look Like in Education? - Progressive.org</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/community-schools-powerful-strategy-disrupt-inequitable-systems#.W3XCUaUrNbU.twitter"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Community Schools: A Powerful Strategy to Disrupt Inequitable Systems</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/child-welfare-report-1.4810280"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Canada's children have high rates of suicide, abuse, infant mortality: report | CBC News</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/fall-2017/the-influence-of-affluence-in-independent-schools/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NAIS - The Influence of Affluence</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/535035/?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Study: Poor Kids Who Believe in Meritocracy Suffer - The Atlantic</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2018/04/30/162571/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why the principal in the viral video of Upper West Side integration debate believes in school diversity</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://visualization.policywise.com/P2matrix/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Program Overlap Matrix</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://schoolsweek.co.uk/research-grammar-schools-do-not-do-better-and-should-be-scrapped/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research: Grammar schools do not do better and should be scrapped</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/manitoba/betty-gibson-cooking-classes-1.4578442"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cooking classes connect families, community at Brandon's Betty Gibson School - Manitoba - CBC News</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/opinion/sunday/colleges-measure-learning-outcomes.html?referer=https://t.co/lgeHvuwN7N?amp=1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opinion | The Misguided Drive to Measure ‘Learning Outcomes’ - The New York Times</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://theconversation.com/stuck-in-the-past-the-uk-needs-to-produce-creative-thinkers-not-exam-passing-machines-91789"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stuck in the past: the UK needs to produce creative thinkers not exam-passing machines</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/eastglen-tracks-its-students-to-steer-them-to-graduation"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eastglen tracks its students to steer them to graduation</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2017/dec/05/drill-english-schools-scripted-lessons-raise-standards-michaela?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">‘Drill and kill’? English schools turn to scripted lessons to raise standards</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://medium.com/identity-education-and-power/passive-oppression-in-education-fueling-the-achievement-gap-af637f8c3718"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Passive Oppression in Education: Fueling the Achievement Gap</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.longviewoneducation.org/disengaged-design-neoconservative-war-youth/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Disengaged by Design: The Neoconservative War on Youth - Long View on Education</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/ed/18/01/testing-charade"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Testing Charade | Ed Magazine</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/the-psychology-of-inequality?mbid=social_facebook"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Psychology of Inequality | The New Yorker</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/the-clues-that-could-explain-our-falling-pisa-marks-20171204-gzybj1.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The clues that could explain our falling PISA marks</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/82329/education-reform-finland-us"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Children Must Play</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://aarondaffern.com/inequity-grading/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Inequity of the Traditional Grading System - Aaron Daffern</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2017/nov/21/english-class-system-shaped-in-schools"><span style="font-weight: 400;">‘Working-class children get less of everything in education - including respect’ | Education | The Guardian</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.teachers.ab.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/ATA/Publications/Research/COOR-101-3%20Renewing%20Albertas%20Promise.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.teachers.ab.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/ATA/Publications/Research/COOR-101-3%20Renewing%20Albertas%20Promise.pdf A Great School For All</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://thetyee.ca/News/2017/08/24/Public-Education-School-Fees-Across-Canada/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Education ‘School Fees’: A Look at What Parents Are Paying Across Canada | The Tyee</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/drive-better-results-schools-damaging-pupils-mental-health?amp"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Results drive in schools damaging pupils’ mental health | News</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://medium.com/@BellaBruyere/why-school-sucks-hint-its-not-because-it-s-boring-221cc1a67576"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why School Sucks (hint: it’s not because it’s “boring”)</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/06/18/heres-an-idea-guarantee-every-child-an-excellent-education/amp/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s an Idea: Guarantee Every Child an Excellent Education – gadflyonthewallblog</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/community-schools-equitable-improvement-brief"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Community Schools: An Evidence-Based Strategy for Equitable School Improvement</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/05/22/why-care-about-other-peoples-children/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why Care About Other People’s Children | gadflyonthewallblog</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/chapel-hill-news/chn-opinion/article139736708.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Great Hope: Kindergarten and Community – Katie Mgongolwa</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/32507/1/Pistiolis_Ioanna_V_201206_MA_thesis.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/32507/1/Pistiolis_Ioanna_V_201206_MA_thesis.pdfThe Results and Implications of Fundraising in Elementary Public Schools: Interviews with Ontario Principals</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/companies-pitch-new-fundraising-schemes-to-cash-strapped-schools-1.2535902"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Forget chocolate bars - companies pitch new fundraising schemes to schools</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2017/01/22/rural-ontario-school-closings-hit-communities-hard.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rural Ontario school closings hit communities hard  | Toronto Star</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/edmonton/rural-schools-alberta-bus-route-funding-government-public-1.3923530"><span style="font-weight: 400;">'There's got to be a better way': bus funding model makes rural schools inaccessible</span></li></a>
    <h1 style="text-align: center;"><b>School Choice & Segregation</b></h1>
    <li><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/charlottesville-other-jim-crow-legacy-separate-and-unequal-education/amp?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charlottesville’s Other Jim Crow Legacy: Separate and Unequal Education</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://thenotebook.org/articles/2018/10/02/nikole-hannah-jones-issues-a-challenge-to-parents-in-philadelphia-and-beyond/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Writer Nikole Hannah-Jones issues a challenge to parents in Philadelphia and beyond | The notebook</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/01/georgias-separate-and-unequal-special-education-system/amp?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Georgia’s Separate and Unequal Special-Education System</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hagerman-white-parents-20180930-story.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">White progressive parents and the conundrum of privilege</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.thestar.com/amp/news/gta/2018/09/30/toronto-is-segregated-by-race-and-income-and-the-numbers-are-ugly.html?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Toronto is segregated by race and income. And the numbers are ugly | The Star</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/536510/la-segregation-scolaire-au-secondaire-une-derive-largement-ignoree"><span style="font-weight: 400;">La ségrégation scolaire au secondaire, une dérive largement ignorée | Le Devoir</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.kitchenerpost.ca/news-story/8748056-a-school-divided-what-french-immersion-has-done-to-suddaby/#.W1CI_-b_GUI.twitter"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A school divided: What French immersion has done to Suddaby | KitchenerPost.ca</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.therecord.com/news-story/8695067-how-french-immersion-has-created-a-two-tier-education-system/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How French immersion has created a two-tier education system | TheRecord.com</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/opinion/rich-parents-hurt-schools-economic-segregation.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opinion | How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools - The New York Times</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.adelayedteacher.com/episode-8-gentrification-segregation-and-education/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Episode 8 – Gentrification, Segregation, and Education – a deLayed teacher</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/study-black-students-toronto-york-university-1.4082463"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Black students in Toronto streamed into courses below their ability, report finds | CBC News</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/nyregion/admissions-specialized-high-schools-new-york.html?smid=tw-share"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elite Schools Make Few Offers to Black and Latino Students</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/nyregion/school-choice-new-york-city-high-school-admissions.html?action=click&contentCollection=N.Y.%20%2F%20Region&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Broken Promises of Choice in New York City Schools</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/calgary/mandarin-school-expansion-panabaker-midnapore-irvine-cbe-board-public-calgary-1.4544848"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mandarin bilingual program expands to south Calgary middle school - Calgary - CBC News</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/ontario-school-data-shed-light-on-effects-of-math-class-divisions/article38018790/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ontario school data shed light on effects of math-class divisions - The Globe and Mail</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/in-fight-for-funding-ontarios-catholic-school-boards-enrolling-morenon-catholics/article37954552/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In push for funding, Ontario’s Catholic school boards enrolling more non-Catholics - The Globe and Mail</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.macleans.ca/education/just-say-non-the-problem-with-french-immersion/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=PSocial&utm_campaign=MAC+always+on&utm_term=education&utm_content=0"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just say ‘non’: The problem with French immersion - Macleans.ca</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://m.ledevoir.com/article-519276"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Le Devoir | Nouvelles, actualités, politique, culture et chroniques</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/kindergarten-registration-could-see-some-students-facing-lotteries-to-access-school-of-choice"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kindergarten registration could see some students facing lotteries to access school of choice | Calgary Herald</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/16/tests-reception-children-immoral-england-play?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proposed tests for reception children ‘verging on the immoral’ | Education | The Guardian</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://badassteachers.blogspot.ca/2018/01/the-different-flavors-of-school.html?m=1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Badass Teachers Association: The Different Flavors of School Segregation by Steven Singer</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-most-albertans-see-benefit-of-public-funding-for-religious-schools/amp?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opinion: Most Albertans see benefit of public funding for religious schools – Edmonton Journal</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/hockey-programs/schools/hcsa/setting-up-a-skills-academy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Setting up a Skills Academy</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/in/2017/12/11/millions-of-extra-dollars-go-to-indianapolis-magnet-schools-that-have-fewer-poor-students/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Millions of extra dollars go to Indianapolis magnet schools that have fewer poor students | Chalkbeat</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/tdsbs-draft-proposal-to-reform-gifted-program-has-parents-worried/article37036583/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Toronto school board’s draft proposal to 'reform' gifted program has parents worried</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/toronto-mulls-end-to-specialized-schools-in-order-to-reduce-learning-disparities/article36686814/?ref=https://www.theglobeandmail.com&utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links&service=mobile"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Toronto school board mulls end to specialized schools in order to reduce learning disparities - The Globe and Mail</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://chriswejr.com/2014/02/16/neighbourhood-schools/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Does School Choice Impact Our Neighbourhood Schools? – The Wejr Board</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.mitchellinstitute.org.au/reports/educational-opportunity-in-australia-2015-who-succeeds-and-who-misses-out/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Educational opportunity in Australia 2015 - Mitchell Institute</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://theconversation.com/australian-education-fails-one-in-four-young-people-but-not-the-wealthy-ones-49663"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Australian education fails one in four young people – but not the wealthy ones</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/advocates-devastated-with-provinces-rejection-of-new-school-for-students-with-learning-disabilities"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Advocates devastated with province’s rejection of new school for students with learning disabilities | Calgary Herald</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://albertaviews.ca/choice-less-education/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">More Choice, Less Education - Alberta Views - The Magazine for Engaged Citizens</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/the-department-of-justice-is-overseeing-the-resegregation-of-american-schools/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Department of Justice Is Overseeing the Resegregation of American Schools | The Nation</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/magazine/education-by-the-numbers.html?referer=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/31/magazine/100000005404039.embedded.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Education by the Numbers - NYTimes.com</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/magazine/the-way-to-survive-it-was-to-make-as.html?referer=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/31/magazine/100000005404039.embedded.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">‘The Way to Survive It Was to Make A’s’ - NYTimes.com</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/magazine/who-benefits-from-the-expansion-of-ap-classes.html?referer=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/31/magazine/100000005404039.embedded.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Who Benefits From the Expansion of A.P. Classes? - NYTimes.com</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/magazine/michigan-gambled-on-charter-schools-its-children-lost.html?referer=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/31/magazine/100000005404039.embedded.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michigan Gambled on Charter Schools. Its Children Lost. - NYTimes.com</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/magazine/the-resegregation-of-jefferson-county.html?referer=https://t.co/NrpJ4Kvs6K?amp=1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Resegregation of Jefferson County - NYTimes.com</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://kuow.org/post/i-wasn-t-comfortable-being-student-color-garfield-highs-advanced-classes"><span style="font-weight: 400;">‘I wasn’t comfortable’: Being a student of color in Garfield High's advanced classes | KUOW News and Information</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/27/hothoused-and-hyper-racialised-the-ethnic-imbalance-in-our-selective-schools"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hothoused and hyper-racialised: the ethnic imbalance in our selective schools | Christina Ho | Opinion | The Guardian</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://islandparent.ca/index.php?kic_article_action=display&kic_article_id=389"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The real reason we send our kids to French Immersion</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://andrewscampbell.com/2013/02/10/the-problem-with-french-immersion/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Problem With French Immersion - Looking UpLooking Up</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/where-did-all-the-integrated-schools-go-why-segregation-is-still-bad/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Where Did All The Integrated Schools Go? Why Segregation is Still Bad | gadflyonthewallblog</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://fusion.kinja.com/graphic-essay-betsy-devoss-school-choice-movement-isnt-1794866688?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Fusion_twitter"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Graphic Essay: Betsy DeVos' 'School Choice' Movement Isn't Social Justice. It's a Return to Segregation.</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://chicagoreporter.com/school-choice-is-a-scam-in-segregated-neighborhoods/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">School choice is a scam in segregated neighborhoods | Chicago Reporter</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aera/aera17/index.php?program_focus=view_event&selected_box_id=234715&cmd=online_program_direct_link&sub_action=online_program"><span style="font-weight: 400;">School Choice: Politics of Opportunity and Identity</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/04/24/torontos-art-school-students-mostly-white-from-high-income-families-study-finds.html?platform=hootsuite"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Toronto’s art school students mostly white, from high-income families, study finds | Toronto Star</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/rich-parents-school-inequality/431640/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Rich Parents Can Exacerbate School Inequality</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/03/10/as-fewer-kids-attend-neighborhood-schools-transportation-challenges-intensify/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Fewer Kids Attend Neighborhood Schools, Transportation Challenges Intensify</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://bridgemi.com/2016/11/betsy-devos-and-the-segregation-of-school-choice/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">BridgeBetsy DeVos and the segregation of school choice</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.citylab.com/politics/2017/01/what-betsy-devos-didnt-say-about-school-choice/513269/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mapping 'White Flight' Into Charter Schools</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.bonnyvillenouvelle.ca/article/NLPS-expresses-concerns-regarding-education-choices-in-rural-Alberta-20170117#.WH56NZOxlbE.twitter"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NLPS expresses concerns regarding education choices in rural Alberta</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://cloakinginequity.com/2017/01/13/truth-why-vouchers-and-school-choice-were-created/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Truth: Why vouchers and school choice were created</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jan/07/poor-pupils-miss-grammar-school-places?CMP=twt_gu"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Grammar schools offer ‘pitifully few’ places to poorer children</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/behind-the-french-immersion-crush-schools-and-parents-worry-about-shrinking-englishclassrooms/article29031082/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Class divide: As French immersion booms, English classrooms shrink</span></li></a>
    <h1 style="text-align: center;"><b>Education Apartheid</b></h1>
    <li><a href="https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/politics/federal/recipe-for-education-apartheid-20120826-24ufo.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recipe for education apartheid</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2014/11/educational-apartheid-is-scotlands-greatest-national-disgrace/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Educational apartheid is Scotland’s greatest national disgrace | Coffee House</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/31/is-spain-sleepwalking-into-educational-apartheid"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Is Spain sleepwalking into educational apartheid? | World news | The Guardian</span></li></a>
    <h1 style="text-align: center;"><b>Racism </b></h1>
    <li><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4874985?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Voters send 7 new trustees to a York School Board grappling with racism</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.thestar.com/amp/opinion/star-columnists/2018/06/26/racism-in-schools-is-not-pass-or-fail.html?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Racism in schools is not pass or fail | The Star</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.longviewoneducation.org/diversity-thought-not-problem/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">'Diversity of Thought' is not the problem - Long View on Education</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/04/black-students-teachers-implicit-racial-bias-preschool-study"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teachers' implicit bias against black students starts in preschool, study finds | World news | The Guardian</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.aaihs.org/eugenics-and-the-modern-conservative-movement/?utm_content=bufferb7a83&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eugenics and the Modern Conservative Movement – AAIHS</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://theconversation.com/amp/toby-young-what-is-progressive-eugenics-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-meritocracy-89671?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton&__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Toby Young: what is 'progressive eugenics' and what does it have to do with meritocracy?</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://apnews.com/e9c25534dfd44851a5e56bd57454b4f5/US-charter-schools-put-growing-numbers-in-racial-isolation"><span style="font-weight: 400;">US charter schools put growing numbers in racial isolation</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/havent-changed-a-thing-private-school-much-the-same-despite-prayer-appeal"><span style="font-weight: 400;">'Haven’t changed a thing:' Private school much the same despite prayer appeal</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-webber-academy-case-about-discrimination-not-secularism"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opinion: Webber Academy case about discrimination, not secularism</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2017/04/24/black-students-hindered-by-academic-streaming-suspensions-report.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Black students hindered by academic streaming, suspensions: Report | Toronto Star</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.salon.com/2017/01/19/betsy-devos-donald-trumps-education-chief-is-living-proof-white-people-havent-gotten-over-brown-v-board-of-education/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s education chief, is living proof white people haven’t gotten over Brown v. Board of Education</span></li></a>
    <h1 style="text-align: center;"><b>Governance</b></h1>
    <li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/have-you-heard/id1080145136?mt=2&i=1000422177124"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#52: Teachers are Running for Office - And to Save Public Education by Have You Heard</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.albertaliberal.com/khan_challenges_ndp_education_record"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alberta Liberal Leader David Khan challenges NDP education record </span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.aisca.ab.ca/2016/12/greetings-from-the-minister-of-education-the-honourable-david-eggen/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Greetings from the Minister of Education, the Honourable David Eggen</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.strathconatweedsmuir.com/blog/the-funding-of-independent-schools-in-alberta/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Funding of Independent Schools in Alberta </span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://www.icontact-archive.com/cygVNOqY6pi4994qjjAO6ATVhv7HaZ5J?w=4"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to Sustain Community Schools − The Partnership for the Future of Learning Publishes New How-To Guide</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://massbudget.org/report_window.php?loc=Building-an-Education-System-that-Works-for-Everyone.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building an Education System that Works for Everyone: Funding Reforms to Help All Our Children Thrive - MassBudget</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.longviewoneducation.org/school-board-courage/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">School Board Courage - Long View on Education</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/378014082/United-Conservative-Party-Constitutional-Document-2-Member-Policy-Declaration-V2-0-Member-Proposal-Consolidation#fullscreen&from_embed"><span style="font-weight: 400;">United Conservative Party Constitutional Document 2 - Member Policy Declaration - V2.0 (Member Proposal Consolidation)</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/themes/5532a70aebad640927000001/attachments/original/1429634829/Alberta_NDP_Platform_2015.pdf?1429634829"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/themes/5532a70aebad640927000001/attachments/original/1429634829/Alberta_NDP_Platform_2015.pdf?1429634829 Alberta NDP 2015 Election Platform</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.thestar.com/amp/news/gta/2018/03/26/province-urged-to-overhaul-flawed-approach-to-funding-education.html?__twitter_impression=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Province urged to overhaul ‘flawed’ approach to funding education | Toronto Star</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://special.nationalpost.com/follow-the-money/feature"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow the Money - Political Donations Database | National Post</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/allison-hanes-quebec-education-ministers-vision-of-the-future-is-refreshing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Allison Hanes: Quebec Education minister’s vision of the future is refreshing | Montreal Gazette</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://ei-ie.org/en/detail/15718/new-zealand-government-announces-end-of-charter-schools?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#.WptLQskIa5c.twitter"><span style="font-weight: 400;">New Zealand: Government announces end of charter schools</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="https://www.unite4education.org/global-response/test/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public education: a right that the Portuguese will fight to defend | Unite for Quality Education</span></li></a>

    <li><a href="http://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/silva-and-blasetti-ndp-needs-to-review-how-it-funds-schools"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Silva and Blasetti: NDP needs to review how it funds schools</span></li></a>

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