Boston students walk out to protest school budget cuts
Boston Public Schools students protested planned budget cuts Monday, with more than 1,000 walking out of classes and marching to the Boston Common. Organizers posted a letter on Twitter prior to the...
View ArticleThe One Democrat to Vote Against Obama's New Secretary of Education Is the...
Today, the Senate voted to confirm Obama’s new Secretary of Education John B. King, of New York, 49 to 40.42 Democrats and 7 Republicans voted for King’s confirmation. 39 Republicans and 1 Democrat...
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Introducing critical facts into the Magnolia charter school debate
I read Caprice Young’s “Anaheim Union Needs to Live Up to Its Own Standards for Accountability”, and was somewhat taken aback by the lack of factual basis behind all of its assertions. Putting aside...
View ArticleDebunking the charter school industry’s “lotteries prevent cherry picking” trope
A brief response to a charter school industry apologist encountered on Professor Ravitch's site:A threadbare trope of the charter industry (profit and nonprofit alike), is that of “lotteries prevent...
View ArticleCalifornia charter school industry bill attempts to eliminate only source of...
“…charter schools have used their public characteristics to qualify for public funding under state constitutional law, while highlighting their private characteristics to exempt themselves from other...
View ArticleShining light on the charter school industry's biggest player
“This increasingly well-rooted network provides the Gulen Movement with daily access to the minds of over 45,000 students, and yearly access to hundreds of millions of hard-earned tax dollars.”—Sharon...
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Bronx high school students school Ted Cruz and send him away with his tail...
Bronx native and famed American author Don DeLillo once said that the word the Bronx sounded like something said through broken teeth. It’s also an area with historic roots in progressive thinking and...
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The schools Steve Barr made: Green Dot Charters post NINE of lowest fifty SAT...
"The lowest-performing, based on test scores, is the large Green Dot chain."—Los Angeles TimesBeleaguered Green Dot schools have dealt with charges of racism, embezzlement, poor performance, and even...
View ArticleWhy Teach for America’s Audience is Shrinking: A Review from a Former...
The non-profit organization that sends freshly minted college grads with just five weeks of training into low-income schools where they are expected to teach for a minimum of two years is undergoing a...
View ArticleKasich, the “moderate” of Fantasy and Lore
In the bizarre ideological, economic, ethical and moral wasteland that is GOP politics, the Ohio governor is being offered as an oasis, a “reasonable” choice for conservative voters who recoil at the...
View ArticleObama proclaims National Teacher Appreciation Week but why special...
by Karen Rubin, News & Photo FeaturesPresident Obama has declared May 3, 2016, as National Teacher Appreciation Day and May 1 through May 7, 2016, as National Teacher Appreciation Week. And for...
View ArticleThe Charter School Life Cycle
Last week, the Scholar Academies charter network announced that it would be pulling out of a Philadelphia elementary school that it had been operating since 2013:At an emergency meeting, Scholar...
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Mich Dem Zemke excoriates GOP who put the profit statements of for-profit...
"This package [of legislation] is a handout to criminals." - Rep. Adam ZemkeOriginally posted at Eclectablog.com.Gary Naeyaert is a "member of Team Jesus" and the Executive Director of the Great Lakes...
View ArticleLessons of a Facebook Death Hoax and an FBI Fishing Expedition Hosted by the...
Last night I was home in bed waiting for my wife to come home. When she comes into the bedroom I am watching “The Last Witch Hunter” starring Vin Diesel while simultaneously surfing the Internet. As a...
View ArticleThe Uncommon Core of Donald Trump, Jr.
Too many people on both sides of the political spectrum are giving Donald Trump, Jr. a rave review for his flawed speech last night at the RNC. He came off as an oxymoron when he claimed to have the...
View ArticleOH-Sen: Strickland (D) Calls For A National Moratorium On Charter Schools...
I’m liking this:Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Ted Strickland on Tuesday said he supports a nationwide moratorium on for-profit charter schools."I'm opposed to for-profit charter schools because I do...
View ArticleParents are suing Mississippi to stop charter schools from receiving public...
Charter schools are good at making money. That’s really what they are best at doing. Charter schools don’t perform better than public schools. They do, however, take money away from public schools, and...
View ArticleThis week in the war on workers: Charter schools get the John Oliver treatment
Charter schools got the John Oliver treatment, and it's brutal. Oliver opened by saying “we’re going to set aside whether or not charter schools are a good idea in principle,” because there are already...
View ArticleThank you John Oliver for exposing how charter schools steal from children
“Fraud is a feature of deregulation, not a bug. When no one is looking, some people steal. Not everyone steals, but many do. That is why Ohio, Florida, Michigan, and California are scamming...
View ArticleBaja Arizona Kos: Sunday Open Thread
Greetings Open Thread fans, wherever you are. It’s Sunday again, time for another Baja AZ Kos Open Thread. Click through for some stuff relating to news and politics in Tucson and Greater Baja.
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