Massachusetts Governor’s Office Advises Pro-Charter Allies to Use Private Emails
It is no secret that Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker wants to more privately managed charter schools in his state. He has been openly campaigning for...
Month : October 2016
Steven Singer on Standardizing Whiteness
The corporate reformers love standardized testing. They treat the scores as sacred truths. The scores are the measure of success or failure. We hear again...
Katy, Texas, Spending $71 Million on a New Football Stadium, But Can’t Afford a New Elementary School
The public schools of Katy, Texas, are overcrowded. The district needs a new elementary school, but it can’t afford to build one. But the city...
Los Angeles: Why Won’t the California Charter School Association Debate the UTLA about Charters and Privatization?
The United Teachers of Los Angeles invited the powerful California Charter School Association to debate the issues surrounding the explosive growth of charter schools and...
Denis Ian: Ignore the Edu-Babble and Listen to Your Heart
Reader Denis Ian wrote the following comment in relation to the ongoing strife about Common Core standards and testing: Every new school year renews the...
Peter Greene on the Rocketship to Nowhere
Peter Greene wants to warn readers about a new study of Rocketship charter schools that he finds not credible. Maybe it is because the Rocketship...
CNBC: Comey’s Curious Double Standard
James Comey felt compelled to report to Congress and the nation that the FBI had found new emails that might or might not be significant....
Newsweek: Donald Trump’s Companies Systematically Destroyed Emails and Records in Defiance of Court Orders
Kurt Eichenwald, writing in Newsweek, discovered that Donald Trump’s companies routinely destroyed emails that might prove incriminating, in defiance of court orders. Over the course...
Michael Moore Today Speaks About Trump and Clinton
I heard this interview on the radio today. It is even better to watch Jake Tapper interview Michael Moore. It begins with a discussion of...
Washington Post: Bipartisan Criticism of Comey Increases in DC
Outrage grows in Washington about FBI Director James Comey’s unusual announcement of a renewed investigation of emails on Anthony Weiner’s computer, says the Washington Post....