Week 102
Last week San Francisco residents “overwhelmingly voted to oust the only three board members eligible for recall, including the particularly divisiv...
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Week 100
100 weeks ago, Tom Hanks and NBA basketball player Rudy Gobert revealed they were in quarantine after contracting Covid-19, San Francisco became the f...
Week 98
It is week 98 of our New Reality Roundup and in the ebb and flow between disruption and recovery, it looks like the retreat of Omicron may finally be ...
Week 96
“American children are starting 2022 in crisis,” writes David Leonhardt in The New York Times. His clear-eyed recitation of the facts is required ...
Week 93
This month will mark the end of 50CAN’s 10th year. Two of the core values we established in those early days in 2011 to help guide our work were opt...
Week 88
It is week 88 of our new reality and while nearly two weeks have passed since the election results in Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere across the na...
Week 86
It is week 86 of our new reality and tomorrow voters will be making their voices heard in thousands of school board races across the country.
Week 84
It is week 84 of our new reality and we finally have clear data on how students were doing on the eve of the pandemic. The results are a wakeup call f...
Week 82
It is week 82 of our new reality and over a year and a half since school buildings initially shuttered. While nationally the Delta variant appears to ...
Special Edition: Week 80
Securing transparency won’t be easy. That’s why across the 50CAN network, we are undertaking a coordinated advocacy campaign to ensure a parent’...
Week 78
It is week 78 of our new reality and across the country school leaders find themselves struggling to help their students recover from the crises of th...
Week 76
It is week 76 of our new reality and in many schools and districts sharp divisions over masking and vaccinations threaten to derail an already difficu...