Billionaire Bloomberg Will Give $750 Million to Expand Charter Schools
Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City, announced yesterday that Bloomberg Philanthropies will spend $750 million to expand the charter school sector. Declaring that...
Category : Disruption
Steve Nelson: The Campaign to Destroy Public Education
Steve Nelson, a retired educator, describes the calculated and underhanded effort to destroy public education, a ruse that proceeds by stealth and loaded language. He...
Peter Greene: Ranking States by Their Hostility to Public Education
Peter Greene realized that supporters of public education have been lacking the very thing that catches the attention of the public and the media: reports...
National School Boards Association Bows to Pressure, Withdraws Complaint About Threats and Intimidation
A month ago, the National School Boards Association wrote a letter to President Biden, asking for help on behalf of local school boards that were...
Maryland Creates “Shadow” State Education Department, But Why?
In this opinion piece in the Baltimore Sun, Kalman R. Hettleman describes the creation in Maryland of a new state agency that has the same...
FBI Will Investigate Violent Threats Against Educators and School Boards
James Harvey, leader of the National Superintendents Roundtable, reported that federal authorities will investigate violent threats made against school personnel and school boards in response...
New Hampshire: Rabid Protestors Attack Democracy
It’s happening across the nation: Angry anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers are undermining democracy, science, and civil society. They are disrupting school board meetings, town council meetings,...
Peter Greene: In Case You Missed Michelle Rhee…You Can Join the Zoom
Peter Greene wonders if you have missed Michelle Rhee, once the Wonder Woman of the edreform biz, but recently absent from the national scene. After...
NPE Launches New Website with Stories from the Frontlines of Public School Advocacy
NPE ACTION’S NEW PROJECT TO BRING TALES FROM THE FRONTLINES OF PUBLIC SCHOOL ADVOCACY Public schools remain incredibly popular among Americans across the political spectrum,...
Beware the Insidious Attack on Your Local School Board
I recently learned of a rightwing website collecting complaints about school boards, presumably to encourage dissension and hostility at school board meetings. The School Board...