BOMBSHELL: Dark Money and the Fight to Defund Public Schools in California!
In 2012, Californians voted on Proposition 30, which raised taxes on the richest citizens in order to raise funding for public schools and charter schools....
Month : June 2016
Conflict of Interest: Former Top Obama Officials Plan to Cash in on For-Profit University
This story is shocking. Former officials in the Obama administration, once in charge of regulating predatory the for-profit higher education industry, now want in on...
North Carolina: Governor’s Appointee to State Board of Education Has Conflict of Interest
I posted last night that Governor Pat McCrory plans to appoint a man to the state board of education who has little experience in public...
Massachusetts: N.E. NAACP and Lawyers’ Committee Intervene to Stop Lifting of Charter Cap
In a hotly contested lawsuit about whether to lift the cap on charter schools, the New England NAACP and the Lawyers’ Committee of Massachusetts intervened...
Milwaukee: Leader of State “Turnaround District” Resigns
Parents and educators in Milwaukee have fought against Governor Scott Walker’s efforts to take over Milwaukee Public Schools. Walker was relentless, and he persuaded the...
Tennessee: How State Officials Contributed to Testing Disaster
Chalkbeat Tennessee has an excellent report on Tennessee’s testing fiasco. State officials knew that the testing company was in deep trouble before the testing began,...
New York Times: Trump Institute Sold Plagiarized Lessons
The New York Times reported that Donald Trump was involved in another fleece-the-buyer scheme, aside from Trump University. He also launched Trump Institute, which promised...
Wishful Thinking: Vergara Decision Has NOT Been Released
But isn’t that the objective . Or let us say that the goal is not to destroy the middle class, that would be politically incorrect...
The Boston Globe: Why Test Scores Should NOT Be Used to Evaluate Teachers
Surprise: I wrote the article. Nothing I wrote will be a surprise to readers of this blog, but may be new to the readers of...
Tim Slekar: The Milwaukee Takeover Was Racist and Should be Abandoned
Tim Slekar, dean of Edgewood College in Wisconsin, is one of the bravest people in the resistance to corporate reform. He was involved in the...