A Warning: Who Is Paying for Your State’s Civics Courses?
If you have a few minutes to do some research, you might wonder about the connections among these three links: First is from the extreme...
Category : ALEC
The Most Important Radical Rightwing Group You Never Heard of
In this post, Bill Moyers conducts an important interview with investigative journalist Anne Nelson, who talks about her new book, SHADOW NETWORK: MEDIA, MONEY, AND...
Florina Rodov: Virtual Charter Schools Are an Educational Disaster
I have posted many times about the corruption embedded in the for-profit virtual charter industry. The founder of Pennsylvania’s largest virtual charter school was sentenced...
Tom Ultican: School Choice is a Costly Fraud
Tom Ultican, retired teacher of physics and advanced mathematics in California, writes frequently about school “reform,” aka school choice, as a substitute for adequate funding....
Is the Demand to Reopen Schools Really a Plot to Dismantle Them?
Floridians, and everyone else, want to know the answer to this question. Some believe that keeping schools open during a pandemic will destroy them; some...
Tom Ultican: Who Paid to Make Indianapolis the Second Most Privatized School District in the Nation?
In this post, Tom Ultican takes a close look at the takeover and privatization of the Indianapolis school district, funded by billionaires and managed by...
Stuart Egan: The Step-by-Step Destruction of Democracy in North Carolina
In this powerful post, NBCT teacher Stuart Egan describes the calculated attack on democracy and social justice in North Carolina. The state was once considered...
Tom Ultican Explains Corporate Education Reform and the Assault on Dallas Public Schools
This is a very engaging video interview of Tom Ultican, an expert on corporate education reform, explaining the federal takeover of public schools via...
A Book You Should Own That Explains Education Today
Perhaps you have been confused by the proliferation of organizations that claim to be all about fixing schools and teachers. Perhaps you can’t figure out...
Politico: Betsy DeVos Thanks ALEC for Its Ideas to Defund Public Schools
Politico reports that Betsy DeVos thanked her ideological bedfellow, ALEC, for its help in framing proposals to defund public schools (aka vouchers, opportunity scholarships, tax...