Carol Burris: The Secretary of Education We Need–and Those We Don’t
Carol Burris wrote the following post. Marla Kilfoyle provided assistance. They asked me to add that there are dozens more exceptionally well qualified people who...
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Thomas Ultican: What Is the Center for Reinventing Public Education?
Thomas Ultican has yet again performed a public service by investigating a reformy think tank, where people get huge amounts of money from billionaires to...
Thomas Ultican: Will the Billionaires Buy and Privatize Oakland Public Schools?
Thomas Ultican, retired teacher of advanced math and physics, has been analyzing the depredations of the privatization movement, which dares to call itself a “reform”...
Thomas Ultican on The City Fund and Its Determination to Disrupt and Destroy Public Schools and Democracy
Thomas Ultican is a retired teacher of physics and advanced mathematics who has developed a passionate interest in the inner workings of the Privatization and...
Tom Ultican: Harvard’s School Privatization Machine and the Indianapolis Takeover
Tom Ultican, retired teacher of physics and advanced mathematics, has been accumulating case studies of what he calls “the Destroy Public Education Movement.” His latest...
Tom Ultican Explains Corporate Education Reform and the Assault on Dallas Public Schools
This is a very engaging video interview of Tom Ultican, an expert on corporate education reform, explaining the federal takeover of public schools via...
How Did Pro-Public School Candidates “Flip” the Denver School Board?
Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider reveal the secret ingredient to the success of the Resistance to privatization/portfolio district strategy in Denver in this podcast. For...
Jan Resseger: The Tragedy of “Portfolio Districts”
Jan Resseger writes here about the damage that “portfolio districts” do to students, schools, and communities. The original concept for “portfolio districts” was developed by...
Texas: A Power Grab to Squeeze the Public Out of Public Education
Parent activist Lynn Davenport posted this warning about a “public-private partnership” that leaves out the public. Corporate interests are plotting to privatize public schools while...
Jane Nylund: Oakland Is in the Sights of the “Destroy Public Education” Crowd, Who Control the Board
Jane Nylund, parent activist in Oakland, wrote the following warning after reading about the ouster of the Disrupters in Denver. Parents and activists and concerned...