Billy Townsend: A Handy Guide to the Latest Education Scandal in Florida
retired teacher says: This is a very thorough examination of the history of corruption in the privatized education system in Florida. It should be a...
Category : Florida
Billy Townsend: The DeSantis-Corcoran Scandal Grows Uglier
Billy Townsend digs into the burgeoning scandal surrounding Governor DeSantis and state commissioner of education Richard Corcoran. The Tampa Bay Tribune-Miami Herald reported that the...
Billy Townsend: The Collapse of Florida’s “Schools of Hope” Program
Five years ago, Florida’s Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran announced his plan to “save” the state’s lowest performing schools. He called it “Schools of Hope.”...
Billy Townsend: Florida’s Education Leaders Are Rotten
Billy Townsend, a former school board member in Polk County, Florida, warns that the state education leaders are rotten. In this post, he accuses several...
Florida: Another DeSantis Attack on Teachers, Schools and Common Decency
Peter Greene describes his latest gambit. He is pressing for the adoption of his “Stop WOKE” act. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is doing his level...
Billy Townsend: Florida Extremists Demand Removal of an Anatomical Drawing that Labels “Anus” and “Bladder”
Sometimes I think our nation has time-traveled back to the 1950s, when demented people made demented demands of the public schools and accused them of...
Florida: The First Virtual Reality Charter School Will Open in 2022
A new virtual reality charter school will open in Florida in the fall of 2022. It is called Optima Domi, and it presents itself as...
Grumpy Old Teacher: DeSantis Would Be Worse Than Trump
Blogger Grumpy Old Teacher (GOT) explains the competition between Donald Trump and Florida Ron DeSantis for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 (both want to...
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...
Billy Townsend: Voucher Grifters, Take Mary McLeod Bethune’s Good Name Out of Your Mouths
Billy Townsend is outraged that the Florida’s voucher industry has the nerve to name its new super voucher program after one of the nation’s (and...