Reclaiming the Common Good, a 6-part investigative series exploring the systematic dismantling, underfunding, and demographic sorting of public education in Gaston County, North Carolina.

This series pulls back the curtain on the corporate tax-cut agenda, the privatization schemes, and the structural loopholes that are starving our schools. More importantly, it provides a progressive roadmap for how we, as a community, can organize, fight back, and reclaim our public schools as a vibrant public good.

• Part 1: The Engineered Shortfall: How Inflation and Rigid Rules Are Starving Gaston County Classrooms
• Part 2: The Revaluation Trap: How Paper Wealth Penalizes Working-Class Schools 
• Part 3: The Lottery Hoax: Progressive Starvation and the Corporate Tax Shift
• Part 4: Vouchers and the State-Funded Flight: The Resegregation of Gaston County
• Part 5: The Charter Drain: Neoliberal Extraction and Demographic Sorting
• Part 6: Electoral Volatility and the Shifting Landscape