Jan Resseger: Senator Jon Tester is A Hero of Public Education
Jan Resseger writes here about Montana Senator Jon Tester’s deep and well-grounded belief in public education. He says that Democrats would have greater success in...
Category : Rural Schools
Report from South Carolina: Rasheem and LaRonda
Arnold and Carol Hillman were educators in Pennsylvania. They retired to South Carolina and, instead of golfing and relaxing, they became involved with rural public...
Peter Greene: Watch Out, Maine, the Charter Pushers Have a New Name, Same Game
Peter Greene writes about a new push to expand charters in Maine by the same-old group that has failed in the past to disrupt the...
Alabama: A Charter is Closed Before It Opens
The Alabama Charter SchoolCommission decided to revoke the charter of Woodland Prep, which had not yet opened. Blogger Larry Lee has the inside scoop. He...
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: Who Killed the Knapp Family?
Farlan, the oldest of the Knapp children, was in Nick’s grade. A talented woodworker, he dreamed of opening a business called “Farlan’s Far Out Fantastic...
Senate Republicans Want to Increase Funding for Charters, House Democrats Want to Cut it
The federal Charter Schools Program handed out $440 Million this year. Betsy DeVos uses this money as her personal slush fund to reward corporate...
Larry Lee: What Charter Pushers Don’t Understand About Rural Communities Like Fruitdale
Larry Lee writes about a small town in Alabama called Fruitdale. He describes the central role of the public schools in that community. It is...
South Carolina: Two People Who Are Making a Difference
I have written before about Arnold and Carol Hillman. See here and here. They were educators in Pennsylvania who retired to South Carolina. Being...
Larry Lee: The Rape of Washington County, Alabama
Larry Lee is a native Alabamian who is an expert on rural schools. A few years ago, he wrote an excellent report about the...
Peter Greene: Why Charter Schools Have a Hard Time Cracking the Rural Market
Peter Greene noticed that Reformers have turned ttheir attention to rural communities, where they have a hard time getting established. Imagine a guy or woman...