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Friday, March 14, 2014

3-14-14 With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All Week

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When It Comes to Education Policy- It's All About the Benjamins
One question we have to ask ourselves is how many of the policies we are fighting, from Common Core, to test based teacher evaluation, to school closings and charter school preferences, would have gotten any traction were it not from the support they have gotten from a small group of people whose wealth has reached unprecedented proportions because of changes in tax laws, deregulation of the finan

Why Charters Can't Always Be Trusted to Serve Inner City Communities

Henry Louis Taylor · Buffalo, NY · This is about Betrayal The struggle to regenerate the East Side is a protracted fight, which requires tireless dedication. In the late 1980s, a group of Buffalo residents and concerned citizens saved the St. Mary of Sorrows Catholic Church from being turned down and transformed it into a community center, early learning school, and neighborhood anchor institution


3-13-14 With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All Week
With A Brooklyn Accent: Destroying Public Education: A Fourth Inner City Catastrophe?One of the great ironies in contemporary American History is that top leaders of the Democratic Party are supporting the elimination of public education in Urban America - even though the public schools are the one institution in inner city neighborhoods that survived de-industrialization, the crack epidemic, and