Stephen Lendman’s ArticlesCharging Students Bus Fare in Colorado: Fleecing working familes to pay the wake left by Reaganomics and ‘Free Trade’ The attack on public education is enough to make one sick. Better put on a pair of huggies or lay down a rubber sheet to read this one, if you have not already done so. Douglas […]
by Jordan Doorwall The staff of Central Falls high school in Rhode Island has been given a new lease on life, or so it seems. And so much like Shylock in the Merchant of Venice, they’ve been given a new religion to go with it. The symbolism is unmistakeable: teachers come back with the understanding that […]
Diana Chapman is a reporter from Los Angeles. She is a formidable fighter for public education with the heart of an elementary student and the cognition of issues in public education. She is also a distinguished LA reporter. Diana is doing the scratch and smell test through ‘sherlocking’ (investigative journalism) – i.e. critical thinking […]
Things not going well for billionaire plan to take over Washington, D.C. Schools As history indicates, it has taken less than a year to cobble together the naked takeover of public education and the merit pay ruse in Washington D.C. Chancellor of Schools in D. C. Michelle Rhee is implacable, beyond expression when it comes […]
With the successful march on Washington, April 10, 2010 in front of Arne’s cubbyhole and the recent victories handed to BAM and Detroit Schools, Arne Duncan and his cronies must have their underwear in a knot. City by city they had been having their way but now that the forces, mostly made up of students and teachers, are standing up to Race to the Top and catching whiff of the negative consequences of the flawed policy, Duncan must feel frustrated.
It has become intellectually fashionable today to speak about the rising despair, hopelessness, a yearning for fascism on the part of some and apathy among the American people in face of the drastic economic and social policies that threaten everything from public education, employment and the environment to life itself. Disillusionment and a sense of nihilism has smuggled itself into political debates and essays and perhaps rightly so.
In the latest news we find that a former department chief at Detroit Public Schools and his assistant used secret offices and their own computer system to improperly divert more than $57 million in school funds to vendors who provided little, if anything, in return. But this is not even the half of it as you will read.
US Department of Civil Rights to investigate the Los Angeles Unified School District In 1987 I began work for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) as a bilingual second grade teacher Los Angeles. The school was PS 122, in South Central LA. This was a time of increased immigration to the United States from […]
Massive school closures in KC to be done by fall: The politics of ‘compassionate conservatism” You’ve no doubt heard the dismal news out Wednesday, March 12, 2020. Kansas City’s school superintendent said he is going to shutter nearly half the district’s schools due to plummeting enrollment and budget deficits. Perhaps, more grotesque was his […]
