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Introducing the 20222023

Prentiss Charney Fellows

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We are thrilled to announce our first class of Zinn Education Project Prentiss Charney Fellows for the 20222023 school year. The fellowship will offer support for a cohort of people’s history educator leaders to study, learn, and organize together for one year.


Purpose

Once again, educators are at the center of battles over what narrative children will learn about U.S. history and what future they will create. We face so-called anti-CRT laws restricting what educators can say about white supremacy, book bans, and efforts to conscript school personnel into anti-LGBTQ+ persecution. The stakes could not be higher.


The right wing is using its immense funding and the complicity of the mainstream press to fan the fires of racism and repression. To fight back, we need to support educators who, in addition to teaching, will organize, write, create, and build — like the 18 passionate and committed education activists who make up the 20222023 Prentiss Charney Fellows.


Fellowship Name

The fellowship is named Prentiss Charney for two education activists who embody the spirit of this endeavor. C. J. Prentiss and Michael Charney are committed to radical education for young people and recognize that creating the conditions for that learning requires creative, grassroots organizing. 


Through their decades of work in Ohio, and ongoing statewide and national work today, they model the tenacity and strategic brilliance required to succeed against the well-funded rightwing institutions. 

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Photos of Michael Charney and C. J. Prentiss.

Top: Public forum on education in 1987. Bottom: Dedication of Thaddeus Stevens statue in 2022.

We Need Your Support

Help us fund the Prentiss Charney Fellows for the next five years. With secure funding, teachers can plan ahead to participate and we can support the alumni as they interact with the media, present at conferences, write curriculum, organize in their unions and communities, and offer workshops. Learn more and donate here.

Meet the Prentiss Charney Fellows

Rethinking Schools Is Hiring an Executive Director

For more than 35 years, Rethinking Schools has provided resources, inspiration, and analysis to help make schools — and the broader society — more just and equal. To further this work, they are beginning a search for an Executive Director. Are you interested? Do you know someone who might be?


See the full job description.

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