Saving the Commons: This I Believe
Privatization of important parts of the public sector is a great scourge of our times. No institution is more fundamental to the American Dream than...
Category : Billionaires
Mercedes Schneider: Ed Deformers Create Another “Grassroots” Group of Moms
The latest ploy of the billionaires pushing their version of “reform schools” is to fund faux grassroots parent organizations, like the “National Parents Union.” The...
Florida: League of Women Voters Exposes Voucher Boondoggle As Big Business
The Florida League of Women Voters has long been wary about the state’s rush to privatize public school funding through charters and vouchers. It has...
Florina Rodov: Inside the Charter School Hype and Hoax
Fiorina Rodov wanted to teach, and, as she writes, she believed the glowing claims about charter schools as beacons of hope for the neediest students....
Economic Policy Institute: As Unions Decline, Income Inequality Grows
The Economic Policy Institute is one of the very few think tanks in Washington, D.C., that is not funded by Bill Gates or the Waltons....
Gary Rubinstein: How to Pretend to Reform Schools
Gary Rubinstein revisits the past decade of failed reforms and notes how frequently the “reformers” made promises and then failed to keep them. Michelle Rhee...
Maurice Cunningham: The Marketing of the “National Parents Union”
Maurice Cunningham watches the flow of “Dark Money” into the privatization of public funding for schools. A professor of political science, he has recently followed...
Brookings: The Battle for a Union at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama
The struggle now occurring in Bessemer, Alabama, to form a union at an Amazon warehouse could have a dramatic effect on the future of organized...
Maurice Cunningham: A Tangled Web of Christian Conservatives, Economic Royalists, and the “National Parents Union”
Maurice Cunningham, a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, is a specialist in exposing the influence of “dark money” in our political...
An Interview with Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider About ”A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door”
This interview was recorded by Town Hall in Seattle, which is a great venue for speakers but in COVID Times was recorded remotely. I interviewed...