Maurice Cunningham: Who Got Suckered? Secretary Cardona or Readers of The74?
Maurice Cunningham is a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts. His specialty is following the gobs of money poured into “education reform.”...
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Andrea Gabor: How Big Philanthropy Captured Media Coverage of Their Education Investments
Andrea Gabor is the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at Baruch College, which is part of the City University of New York. Gabor has written...
Mercedes Schneider: Ed Deformers Create Another “Grassroots” Group of Moms
The latest ploy of the billionaires pushing their version of “reform schools” is to fund faux grassroots parent organizations, like the “National Parents Union.” The...
Arkansas: Voucher Forces Trying Again, Backed by Walton Money
Max Brantley writes in the Arkansas Times that the voucher lobby is determined to reverse their 44-52 loss in the Arkansas House. Backed by Walton...
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...
Laura Chapman: Education Trust and Its Well-Funded Demands That the Biden Administration Deny Waivers from the Tests
As readers are well aware, the federal law called the Every Student Succeeds Act continued the mandated annual testing of students in grades 3-8 in...
Who Signed the Pro-Testing Appeals?
Education Trust, led by former Secretary of Education John King, sent two letters to the Biden administration, urging the administration not to allow states to...
Maurice Cunningham: How Billionaires’ Dark Money Shapes Education Policy
Maurice Cunningham is a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts who specializes in unmasking the influence of billionaires’ dark money. “Dark money”...
When Walton Family Says “Innovative,” They Mean Privately Controlled
What do you think the Walton Family Foundation has in mind when they seek out “innovative” approaches to schooling? We know that they speak their...
Maurice Cunningham: Why the Waltons and Koch Support Charter Schools
Maurice Cunningham, a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts, specializes in exposing the role of Dark Money in education. If you read my...