Trump Played Golf While Puerto Rico Suffered
During the weeken that Hurricane Maria smashed into Puerto Rico and flattened much of the island, Trump played golf, traded insults with North Korea, and...
Month : September 2017
Peter Greene to Betsy DeVos: Schools Are Not Like Food Trucks
Betsy DeVos keeps searching for an analogy that will convert non-believers to her love of school choice. Choosing a school is like choosing Uber. Or...
Tom Ultican: The Profit-Driven Motive Behind Some of the Greatest Frauds of Our Times
Tom Ultican left a career in Silicon Valley to become a high school teacher of physics and mathematics. He is one of our most perceptive...
The Religious Rationale for Betsy DeVos’ Plan to Destroy Public Schools
In this article, journalist Kathi Valeii interviews author Katherine Stewart about the Evangelical attack on public schools. Stewart is the author of a powerful book,...
ACLU: If Schools Force Students not to #TakeAKnee, See You in Court
One of our readers called Threatened Out West told us that schools cannot force students to participate in patriotic exercises, based on a court case...
Nancy Bailey on the DeVos Watch: Prepare to Fight for Special Education!
When Betsy DeVos was interviewed by the Senate Committee that was about to confirm her as Secretary of Education, she seemed never to have heard...
Victory in Alabama Encourages GOP Extremists Who Hope to Capture the Party, Destroy the Leadership
Emboldened by the victory of extremist Bible-thumper Roy Moore in Alabama, followers of Bannon and Breitbart are preparing to challenge Republicans they don’t like in...
Betsy at Harvard: She is Unaccustomed to This Kind of Rude Reception
Having lived her life in a billionaire bubble, Betsy DeVos expects deference. She did not get it at the Kennedy zdchool at Harvard last night....
Sixty Years After Little Rock, Racism Prevails–in Little Rock, in Jackson, and Elsewhere
This past week marked the 60th anniversary of the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower nationalized the...
Florida: New Study Finds That Schools are Rapidly Resegregating
A new study released by the Leroy Collins Institute and conducted by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA finds that Florida’s schools are resegregation at...