Maurice Cunningham: The “National Parents Union” Is Not What You Think
Retired professor of political science Maurice Cunningham recently read an article about Randi Weingarten that quoted Kelli Rodrigues as leader of the National Parents Union,...
Category : Massachusetts
New Bedford Parents: We Don’t Want a Charter School!
This post was published by the Network for Public Education. The authors remind us that the only thing innovative about charter schools is their marketing...
Maurice Cunningham: Beware the Koch-Funded “Parents Groups”
Maurice Cunningham is a retired professor of political science in Massachusetts who specializes in following the trail of Dark Money into school issues. He was...
Remember Sandy Hook.
Nine years ago, a deranged gunman blasted his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. He murdered 20 children and six educators, including...
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...
Massachusetts: Parent Coalition Protests New Charter in New Bedford
Two leaders of the New Bedford Coalition to Save Our Schools—Cynthia Roy and Roberto Rosa—are outraged that the state is about to plunk a new...
Today: The Salem Witch Trials
The following appeared in The Writer’s Almanac: On this day in 1692 eight citizens of the colony of Massachusetts were hanged for their supposed connections...
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...
Maurice Cunningham: The “National Parents Union” and Dark Money
Maurice Cunningham is the Master of the Mysteries of Dark Money. In this post, he traces the shifting membership of the board of directors of...
Rhode Island: Dark Money Backs “Parent Group” for More Charter Schools
Maurice Cunningham specializes in digging up the facts about Dark Money (political contributions where the donors’ names are hidden). His expose of Dark Money from...