Thank you, President Biden, for tackling wasteful spending on charter schools!
Good afternoon everyone!This article from the Progressive is talking about how President Biden is calling attention to how much taxpayers money is going to charter schools.Here's an excerpt from that...
View ArticleRepublican wants guy who ridiculed public school teachers to set up 100...
Local outlet NewsChannel 5 has obtained pretty damning hidden camera video from a private reception with Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Bill Lee. Per this video, Dr. Larry Arnn, who serves as president of...
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Why Centrism Won't Save Democrats or Democracy, or Address the Insecurity...
Republicans lead. Democrats follow. And that makes all the difference. Libertarian and wealth-protecting Republican ideologues invest to influence and change most people’s normative ideas and values,...
View ArticleSupreme Court ruling could mean less equitable school systems
by Kio HerreraThis article was originally published at PrismOn June 21, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned a Maine law that excluded religious schools from the state’s tuition assistance program,...
View ArticlePrivatizing education has been a 'catastrophic failure': Don't expect Betsy...
There are 295 charter schools in Michigan. And under a Republican-controlled legislature, 81% of them have contracts with private management companies with no demonstrated interest in detailing how...
View ArticleWhatever happened to Newsweek? It's turned into a Republican attack weapon
I always thought of Newsweek as a reasonably responsible middle of the road weekly magazine, with a slightly liberal edge. Things have changed, radically, the Newsweek brand has been turned into a...
View ArticleThe lasting legacy of Boston’s busing crisis
In 1974, Boston implemented a forced busing plan to address educational inequity. Nearly 50 years later, the issues remain.by Kio HerreraThis article was originally published at PrismKim Janey credits...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: Governor Roy Cooper's vetoes and signatures from...
NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD Sunday, July 9th, 2023WEEKLY EDITION #424This blog is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. This weekly platform gives readers interested in North Carolina politics a...
View ArticleSchool Choice and Charter Schools
Right wing pundits say affirmative action does not work. They say it cannot work. They say the solution is to allow for non Whites in cities to have school choice. They should be free to go to...
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Enough Tinkering. To Improve Education for All, Attack Inequity Not Teachers...
“All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are...
View ArticleTo Ensure Trust-worthy Government, We Need to Trust and Organize with One...
In the late 1950s, Johnny Carson hosted the television game show “Who do you trust?” The 2023 answer for far too many Americans appears to be, “Not institutions and certainly not my government!” That...
View ArticleGOP's long-term plan to kill public schools in America might be succeeding
Not long ago, everyone agreed that public education was a value in this nation, much like the notion of a democracy. Yet just like with Republicans shifting attitudes toward democracy, more prominent...
View ArticleLiar, Liar, Pants on Fire!
Liar, Liar. Pants on Fire. The lies from the powerful, especially Republicans, have risen to stunningly Orwellian 2 + 2 = 5 levels. The lies that protect their wealth and power have been quite...
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Public Funds for School Choice is Immoral
Ten years ago, in an essay for the Washington Post, I wrote that the federal push for charter schools had corroded commitment to community responsibility in the United States. Students, educators, and...
View ArticleCharter Schools are frauds. The actions of a former administrator at a public...
Charter Schools are among the biggest frauds in education. After his Houston Independent District coup, TX Gov. Abbott installed Mike Miles, a former failed Charter School administrator. Texas public...
View ArticleFlorida leads the nation in destroying public education
Six states have now passed universal school choice programs, but Florida has been singularly effective at accomplishing what Republicans have had near the top of their agenda for decades: destroying...
View ArticleOklahoma court: Public funds for religious charter school is unconstitutional
The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday stopped what would have been the first publicly funded religious charter school in the U.S., turning back conservatives and the state’s GOP governor who have...
View ArticleOklahoma forces the Bible on students, as Christian nationalism digs in
A little more than a week after Louisiana passed a lawrequiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in schools—promptingsome wags to point out how few Republicans have apparently even read them—Oklahoma...
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