The picture is of the K12, Inc. group as they happily hear the news of their new contract to open a 65,000 student body cyber charter school in the state of Michigan. Neo-liberal policies and creating the new material conditions for privatized education: Grand Valley State University and the Citizens Research Council of Michigan At [...]
Readers: Picture of David Bing, mayor of Detroit, Robert Bobb, Financial manager and employee of Eli Broad along with a representative from a major textbook company seeking contracts to be paid for by taxpayers. The following is from members of the Detroit Federation of Teachers. They have been fighting for some time now the [...]
According to a viewpoint found in InsideHigher Ed, an online newsletter, entitled Missing the Point, by Anthony P. Carnevale , Michelle Melton and Laura Meyer the for-profit college industry is taking fire from all directions because a substantial number of for-profit colleges offer aggressively marketed programs of little value in the job market, leaving individuals [...]
Readers- If you have not heard about the scheduled march for peace, justice and civil rights in Detroit tomorrow, Saturday the 28th, it is due to the sock puppet press’ monopolizing the corporate airwaves with news of Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck might sell better for the forces of profit maximization and oligarchy but the real [...]
Kaplan, the for-profit predatory college whose name keeps popping up when one looks at fraud, misrepresentation, larceny of Title IV funds, theft of student funds, recruitment practices that only parallel the military and many other issues such as poor professors, pre-packaged curriculum and failing colleges has been rebuffed in its plans to privatize part of [...]
Defend Public Education / Save Our Students met on Friday as scheduled. First we heard reports from the various schools represented. We heard about the many teachers who have not received letters rescinding their layoffs and returning them to their schools. We heard about Teach for America and others from outside DPS interviewing for Detroit teachers’ jobs at priority schools. And [...]
Dear Education Activist, Greetings from the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) and the Equal Opportunity Now (EON) Caucus of the AFT/NEA. This has been an exciting summer. Attempts to impose mayoral control on the predominantly minority districts of Detroit and Milwaukee were [...]
Private Vocational College—Kaplan operates vocational training programs that over enroll students using Federal loans that leave low-income student indebted and unemployed. A whistleblower source has come forward to expose how CHI/Kaplan, in Broomsall, Pennsylvania over-enrolled students by the hundreds and then abandoned them before internship placement. The sources stated, “I’m one of the good guys [...]
Dateline: LONDON — Jan. 13, 2009 From – The Microsoft ‘news center’, little more than a corporate rag for Bill Gates and his prevarications and low-self esteem attacks on public education. The ‘self-delusion center’ would be the best bet for such trash but this is the global economy, year 2010, and it resembles an episode [...]
If you have read my article on Kaplan University: Blood Bank for the Washington Post you will see that the Post is being kept alive by the Kaplan subsidiary. Yet Kaplan University is a criminal enterprise. Not only should it be shut down but it should be prosecuted under the federal RICCO Act for criminal [...]
