Eliot Cohen: A Clarifying Moment in American History
Eliot Cohen is a conservative foreign policy expert. He worked on Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s staff. During the campaign, he signed a statement opposing...
Month : January 2017
Henry Levin: School Choice Increases Segregation Without Improving Achievement
Henry Levin, the William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, has studied school choice and privatization around the world....
Ray Richmond: A List I Never Thought I Would Write
Ray Richmond is a writer in Los Angeles. This article appeared in the Los Angeles Times. I won’t reproduce it in full because that would...
The Quack Brain Company that DeVos Refuses to Divest
Betsy DeVos will very likely get the approval of the 12 Republicans on the Senate HELP committee today, despite being totally unqualified to be Secretary...
Trump Fires Acting AG After Dangerous Document Found on Her Computer
Andy Borowitz, humorist, writes that Trump fired the Acting Attorney General Sally Yates after the Constitution was found on her computer. http://www.newyorker.com/?mbid=nl_013117%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%20(1)&CNDID=24457067&spMailingID=10336604&spUserID=MTMzMTgyNDgxNjMzS0&spJobID=1082559402&spReportId=MTA4MjU1OTQwMgS2 Like this: Like...
Jersey Jazzman: Corporate Reform in the Age of Trump
Jersey Jazzman writes that the corporate reform movement had a good thing going until Trump was elected. The Democratic reformers were able to link arms...
HELP Committee Approves DeVos 12-11
Deb…here is a follow up to the HELP committee and those members who took DeVos bribes…article by Steve Singer. Steven Singer posted this message on...
Trying to Track the DeVos Family’s Political Contributions: Not Easy
The Michigan Finance Campaign Network published a report on DeVos Family political giving. This is not a comprehensive report, as others have shown that the...
New Study: Vouchers Enable Discrimination and Segregation
Steve Hinnefeld posts a blog about a new study of vouchers showing that voucher schools encourage and practice discrimination. https://inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/study-confirms-voucher-programs-discriminate/ “Research led by an Indiana...
Network for Public Education Vows to Carry Fight Against DeVos to Senate Floor!
The Network for Public Educations vows to carry the fight for a qualified Secretary of Education to the Senate floor. We now have more than...