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Mercedes Schneider: How TFA Alums Use Their Network to Move into Top Jobs and Score Fat Contracts

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 27, 2021September 28, 2021

September 27, 2021September 28, 2021017

This post is Mercedes Schneider at her best, pulling together the strings of a tangled web involving money, power, TFA, Chiefs for Change, John White,...

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Excellent Summary of Rhode Island Me$$

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 24, 2021September 25, 2021

September 24, 2021September 25, 2021020

A regular reader called Bethree summarized the Rhode Island situation, in which friends of the Governor won a $5 (plus) million contract, although the corporation...

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Scandal in Rhode Island, continued…

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7September 23, 2021September 24, 2021

September 23, 2021September 24, 20210487

I posted Aaron Regunberg’s article in The Providence Journal, in which Governor Dan McKee awarded a $5.1 million contract to a brand-new firm created by...

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Chalkbeat: State Takeovers Are Usually Unsuccessful

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7June 11, 2021June 12, 2021

June 11, 2021June 12, 2021029

Matt Barnum of Chalkbeat reports on a research study that concluded that most state takeovers of low-performing districts were unsuccessful. Local school boards, it was...

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Providence: State Takeover Stumbles As “Toe-Popping” Official and Superintendent Are Fired

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7May 22, 2021May 23, 2021

May 22, 2021May 23, 2021037

When Gina Raimondo was Governor of Rhode Island (she is now Biden’s Secretary of Commerce), she determined that the only way to fix the Providence...

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Rhode Island: Teachers Demand End to State Takeover of Providence Schools

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7April 2, 2021April 3, 2021

April 2, 2021April 3, 2021049

Rhode Island is a mess. Two years ago, the state took control of the Providence public schools. The Governor, Gina Raymond, is a former hedge...

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Maurice Cunningham: How Did Ordinary Moms in Rhode Island Get the Money to Pay for a Poll? Hint: Dark Money

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 29, 2021March 30, 2021

March 29, 2021March 30, 2021036

Maurice Cunningham is a professor political science at the University of Massachusetts who has developed a unique talent for exposing the workings of Dark Money...

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Rhode Island: Dark Money Backs “Parent Group” for More Charter Schools

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7March 6, 2021March 7, 2021

March 6, 2021March 7, 2021046

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...

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Rhode Island Senate Democrats Pass Three-Year Moratorium on New Charters

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7February 14, 2021February 15, 2021

February 14, 2021February 15, 2021041

The Rhode Island State Senate overwhelmingly passed a three-year moratorium on the opening of new charter schools. The vote was 30-6, with only one Democrat...

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Rhode Island: Critics Object to Charter Expansion Plans

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7November 14, 2020November 26, 2020

November 14, 2020November 26, 2020055

Under the leadership of Democratic Governor Gina Raimondo, Rhode Island is a very charter-friendly state. Raimondo was a venture capitalist before she entered politics. Her...

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