The public generally agrees that teachers deserve better pay and more urgent attention to the decline in resources many of them face. They have every right to stand up for themselves, but when they attack charter schools and attempt to prevent families from accessing schools they want, it's time to reconsider our support.

Now that the L.A. teachers' strike is over, can we be honest and say it wasn't for us?

As a black education advocate, and a supporter of alternative education, it gets tiring having these basic bloggers who are threatened by competition constantly attempting to define my work as something it's not.

Andre Perry has spent several years writing indignant missives about education reformers. He should write those hot pieces for black papers, and he should do it for free.

People take to the streets to fight for public education. The problem is they are never demanding America's school children get better classroom instruction.

Journalists continually tell the story about billionaires influencing education policy. They leave out the billionaires that fund their friends.