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Reach Out to Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers understands the danger of destroying public institutions and handing them over to profiteers.
Contact him and urge him to look into the privatization movement in education:
Contact him and urge him to look into the privatization movement in education:
Why This Teacher Has Not Ended Poverty Yet
This teacher admits that he has not ended poverty.
But that doesn’t mean that he has been lazy or had nothing to do.
This is what he does every day.
But that doesn’t mean that he has been lazy or had nothing to do.
This is what he does every day.
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Here Come the Profiteers
Joe Bower is an educator who wants to reform education. But he has no sympathy for the rampant privatizationthat is now overtaking U.S. education with the support of the Obama administration. And it will only get worse under a Romney administration. In the post linked here, he has a video showing an advertisement for one of those aggressive for-profit operations now targeting American school children.
Why isn’t Secretary Duncan on the stump warning parents about these educational predators?
Technology is a good thing when used appropriately. But when advanced as it is now to lay off teachers and
Why isn’t Secretary Duncan on the stump warning parents about these educational predators?
Technology is a good thing when used appropriately. But when advanced as it is now to lay off teachers and
Outrage in Philadelphia!
The $2 billion William Penn Foundation has funded the Philadelphia Student Union for 17 years.
However, the student union does not support the foundation’s radical plan to privatize large numbers of public schools in Philadelphia.
Surprise! The William Penn Foundation will no longer fund the Philadelphia Student Union.
William Penn, the large-hearted man for whom the foundation is named, would not approve.
However, the student union does not support the foundation’s radical plan to privatize large numbers of public schools in Philadelphia.
Surprise! The William Penn Foundation will no longer fund the Philadelphia Student Union.
William Penn, the large-hearted man for whom the foundation is named, would not approve.
Faux Florida Teacher, Principals and Parents PAC Driven by Profit Charter School Cash
A dubiously named PAC appeared on the scene late this spring. Teachers, Principals and Parents United for Florida Schools (TTP United) is run by Florida republican power broker, Nancy Watkins. who serves as treasurerfor at least 26 different PACs associated with state republicans.
There aren’t any teachers, principals or parents of Florida children involved with TTP United. Just a shadowy education management corp, a charter school executive and a company whose CEO is a board member of Jeb
There aren’t any teachers, principals or parents of Florida children involved with TTP United. Just a shadowy education management corp, a charter school executive and a company whose CEO is a board member of Jeb
Bill Introduced: S.3475 Women and Minorities in STEM Booster Act of 2012
A bill to increase the participation of historically underrepresented demographic groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and industry.
Bill Introduced: S.3474 Protecting Students from Worthless Degrees Act
A bill to provide consumer protection for students.
California State University campuses are debating whether to accept graduate students from other states and countries amid a freeze on admitting state residents for the spring term. Some departments say they will ignore the freeze.
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Three Thousand San Francisco Janitors Prepare for a Strike
Source: [b]Truth-out.org[/b]
The national confrontation between janitors and some of the world's richest property owners has arrived in San Francisco where, on Wednesday, over two thousand building cleaners shut down the city's main artery, Market Street, in a huge march. Later, twenty-se...
The national confrontation between janitors and some of the world's richest property owners has arrived in San Francisco where, on Wednesday, over two thousand building cleaners shut down the city's main artery, Market Street, in a huge march. Later, twenty-se...
LA Unified says no tickets for ditching
Hamilton High School in Los Angeles. Credit: Tony Pierce / KPCCWhile most LA Unified students have been on summer break, school police chief Steven Zipperman - head of the largest school police force in the country - and a handful of district administrators have been meeting with
Move by one gay parent to Ga. raises parental rights issue for other parent
A judge in Hackensack has allowed a gay father and his son to move to Georgia over the objections of the boy’s other father, who contends his parental rights will be jeopardized by the move to a state that does not recognize same-sex adoptions.