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● Sarah Jaffe on why more Americans are becoming activists:Faith in elites, and particularly in politicians, had been falling for years, and the bailout of the banks that had caused the crisis only...
View ArticleThis week in the war on workers: Are charter schools private corporations or...
Are charter schools private corporations or public schools? In two separate cases, the National Labor Relations Board says private corporations:In its recent decisions, both issued Aug. 24, the...
View ArticleWhat has the GOP done for black people lately? Part 4 of 8: School Deformation
If you listen to the GOP, Democrats have failed black people. They argue that they’ve only given lip service to improving the black community, at the same time they argue that it has been Democrats...
View ArticleOf course black educators matter—but do we know why?
There once was a time when many children wanted to grow up to be teachers. More often than not, the reason for this vocational choice was because of the experience a person had with a teacher or...
View ArticleThis week in the war on workers: Long Island University locks out its faculty
Lockouts are increasingly prominent as a way employers pressure union workers into accepting terrible contracts. Just tell them not to come to work, and don’t pay them, until they give in. But this is...
View ArticleBig money pours into Massachusetts to undercut public schools
This Election Day, Massachusetts voters will be voting on whether to lift the state’s cap on the number of charter schools allowed to open. A recent poll showed 48 percent of voters opposed to lifting...
View ArticleThis week in the war on workers: 100 Massachusetts school committees oppose...
More than 100 local school committees have voted to oppose Question 2 on the Massachusetts ballot, which would lift the state’s cap on the number of charter schools allowed. Local, elected school...
View ArticleDelaware Charter School Network Comes Up With A Viable Plan That Even I...
Just released from a top secret Charter meeting between the principal players in this state as well as several larger corporations and the US Department of Education, is a new tactic that may actually...
View ArticleWhy I care about school board candidates (although I have no children in...
Voters and media enjoy noisy campaigns. We scrutinize large issues and trivialize small local offices. Yet a candidate selection close to home has consequences that reverberate through our communities,...
View ArticleNo on Massachusetts Question 2 is a vote for the common good
Massachusetts is in the middle of its most expensive ballot measure fight ever—over the expansion of charter schools. Dark money has poured in from outside the state pushing a yes vote on Question 2,...
View ArticleNew York Times indisputably screws up its reporting on Massachusetts Question 2
This election cycle has offered plenty of chances to watch the New York Times take Republican leaks or opposition research and run them straight, as news. Usually it’s about Hillary Clinton’s email or...
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Massachusetts Question 2 goes down in flames. Beautiful, beautiful flames.
In the search for bright spots in Tuesday’s horrible elections, we can look to Massachusetts, where voters resoundingly rejected the attempt to gut the state’s public schools. Though—or even...
View ArticleTo My Daughter From A House Divided
Christiane, As your father, I am writing to you to tell you how sad I am at the result of this election. I am further dismayed that you influenced your mother to vote for a man that has no business...
View ArticleOne Thing I Am Grateful For About Trump...
Markos posited that Democrats should not work with Trump at all, and I recall being a little torn about that. Several pointed out that if there were areas to help the nation and work with Trump...
View ArticleScientists, educators, researchers -- if you use federal databases, download...
Since the flat earth brigade believes that climate change is a made-up hoax perpetrated by a nefarious cabal of evil “scientists”, hair furor has decided to eliminate all NASA climate research. This...
View ArticleMeet Trump's education nominee: Her only experience is trying to destroy...
Disqualified and unqualified are similar words that mean two different things, as Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are constantly reminding us. Jeff Sessions’ racism disqualifies him from being the...
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Children Lose in Trumps America
President elect, Donald Trump’s campaign tag line “Make America Great Again” should come under serious scrutiny with his appointment of Betsy DeVos for Cabinet Secretary who will oversee our countries...
View Article[PODCAST] Trump’s pick for Sec. of Education Betsy DeVos UNVEILED & REVEALED
LOLGOP and I started a podcast a few months ago and this week’s episode is solely dedicated to Michigander Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education. Not only is Betsy DeVos...
View ArticleCartoon: Republicans' safety net cuts
With a unified government, the Republicans can kill the last vestiges of the New Deal that survived Reaganomics and austerity. All of these programs are essential and help millions, but they are far...
View ArticleBetsy DeVos is Bad For Education
Betsy DeVos is the worst possible choice for Secretary of Education. She is not an educator, she never attended public schools, and she does not send her own children to public schools. She has no...
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