Good Government Is Not Socialism
The current Republican Party has reverted to the ace card it held in the 1950s: its followers refer to every government program as socialism. SOCIALISM!!...
Category : ALEC
Who Demoralized the Nation’s Teachers? Readers Respond
Last week, I posted my thoughts on “Who Demoralized the Nation’s Teachers?” I sought to identify the people and organizations that spread the lie that...
Tom Ultican: The Attack on Democracy and Public Education by Charles Koch, ALEC, and Dark Money
Tom Ultican, retired teacher of physics and advanced mathematics, has written an incisive analysis of the libertarian attack on democracy and public education, funded by...
Low-Performing For-Profit Charter Chain in Ohio Set to Launch Charter Schools in West Virginia
Ron Packard’s Accel For-Profit Charter School Operation May Run Half of West Virginia’s First Charter SchoolsThe Ohio D-ranked Accel charter school operator is in line...
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...
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...