Mike Petrilli: Why Is Republican Support for Charter Schools Declining?
Mike Petrilli is concerned that Republican support for charter schools has declined sharply. He suspects it is because charter advocates have tried too hard to...
Month : October 2017
The Koch Brothers Are Targeting Hispanic Families with School Choice Message
Politico reports that the Koch Brothers are promoting School Choice to Hispanic families in 11 states with an organization called the Libre Initiative. The Kochs...
Texas: Is Joe Strauss the Last Moderate Republican in Texas?
Joe Dtrauss, Speaker of the House in Texas, recently announced that he was stepping down. This heartened the radical right wingers in the legislature because...
Is This the Worst Charter Scandal in the Nation? Part 2
Yesterday I wrote about the for-profit Benjamin Franklin Charter Chain in Arizona, which is owned by a member of the legislature, Rep. Eddie Farnsworth. He...
SomeDAM Poet: Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, Betsy DeVos, and Common Core
Due to my technological deficiencies, I have lost some of the visual notes in the original. If you want to see the original, as written...
Florida Madness: Chair of State Board Wants to Add Private Schools to Public EDUCATION portion of State Constitution
Florida Governor Rick Scott’s appointee to the State Board of Education has proposed a constitutional amendment to allow private schools to be funded as part...
Lily Eskelsen Garcia: DeVos Knows Nothing About Public Schools
Lily Eskelsen Garcia forced herself to sit down and listen to Betsy DeVos’ speech at Harvard, where she thought she would be in a choice-friendly...
New Mexico: Charter Founder Pleads Guilty to Stealing Millions
The founder of a group of prominent charter schools admitted to stealing millions of dollars and lying to the FBI. “Scott Glasrud used to be...
John Rogers: Teaching and Learning in the Age of Trump
John Rogers of the University of California in Los Angeles has written a powerful analysis of Trump’s effect on teaching and learning. You will not...
David Safier: Koch Brothers Push Libertarian Doctrine into Arizona High Schools
David Safier writes in the Tucson Weekly about well-funded efforts by the billionaire Koch Brothers to promote their anti-government, free-market libertarian views into local high...