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Articles, reflections, and updates exploring justice, belonging, and Montessori as a path toward peace.

July 4, 2026

Disability Pride Month and the Montessori Promise We Keep Breaking

July is Disability Pride Month. The ADA turns 36 this month. And Montessori has a long, complicated, largely unexamined history of deciding which children the method is 'right for.'

July 1, 2026

What We're Watching: Summer 2026 Montessori Field Roundup

Trans students under federal pressure, training finally becoming accessible, a new LGBTQIA+ org in the field, and a notable silence from the institutions who should be louder.

June 19, 2026

What Juneteenth Asks of the Classroom

Juneteenth is not a celebration of freedom. It is a celebration of the news of freedom reaching people who were still enslaved two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. That distinction matters for educators.

June 14, 2026

What Montessori Gets Right — and Where It Falls Short — on LGBTQIA+ Inclusion

The method has a lot to offer LGBTQIA+ children, families, and educators. It also has a history of using its own language as cover for inaction. Both things are true.

April 15, 2026

Title IX, Trans Students, and the Schools Trying to Hold the Line

The Biden-era Title IX rule that explicitly protected transgender students has been vacated nationwide. The Trump administration is now using federal funding as leverage against schools that maintain trans-inclusive policies. Here is what the legal landscape actually looks like in spring 2026, and what schools can still do.

April 9, 2026

Judge Rules Trump Administration Illegally Cut $36 Million from NYC Schools Over Trans Policies

A federal judge found the administration sidestepped required legal procedures when freezing magnet school grants from 19 NYC schools — a procedural win that may embolden other districts to challenge federal overreach.

March 13, 2026

Federal Government Tells Jefferson County Schools: Drop Trans Protections or Face Enforcement

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights found that Jeffco's policies on sports, bathrooms, and overnight accommodations for transgender students violate Title IX — and gave the district ten days to comply.

February 10, 2026

Higher Ground Was Not an Outlier: The Pattern Behind the Childcare Scale Collapse

Higher Ground Education's bankruptcy filing was the loudest example, but it was not the only one. A pattern of rapid-succession closures across the venture-backed child care sector deserves close scrutiny — and a different conversation about what "scale" actually means for the youngest children.

November 20, 2025

Higher Ground Education's Chapter 11 and What It Means for the Montessori Field

Higher Ground Education — once one of the largest operators of Montessori schools in the country — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2025 after shrinking from roughly 150 schools to just seven. The Peace Rebellion has been watching closely. Here's what happened and why it matters.

August 15, 2025

Statement on the Closure of Busy Hands Montessori in Portland, OR

The Peace Rebellion is troubled by the news out of Portland, OR this week as Busy Hands Montessori, an independent Montessori school, has abruptly closed.