David C. Bloomfield

David C. Bloomfield is Professor of Education Leadership, Law & Policy at Brooklyn College and The City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of American Public Education Law, among other works.

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CHURCH AND STATE

How Private Schools Have Profited From the Pandemic

The basic American tenet of public schools supported by taxpayers for the common good is being left behind in a selfish bid by private schools for no-strings-attached public help.

David C. Bloomfield

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OVERDUE

We Need to Get Radical to Fix a Deeply Racist School System

Start with district lines, financing, teacher assignments and student tracking. Then curriculum reform, special ed referrals, discipline and teacher and administrator expectations.

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FRACTURED

Behind the Lines of America’s Educational Civil War

The war is playing out in our backyards and bake sales.

David C. Bloomfield

NEW COKE

Rather Than Fix SAT, College Board Gins Up ‘Adversity Index’

The new index, intended to distract from the scandalous news about buying and selling test scores, will itself benefit well-off gentrifiers in less well-off census tracts.

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EMOTIONAL EDUCATION

Kill-Joy Principal’s Promposal Ban Crosses a Legal Line

Students have had to fight for their right to party after administrators tried to control their behavior away from the school.

David C. Bloomfield