Join Katherine Stewart and Me Tonight to Discuss the Assault on Public Schools
[intro] The rise of the Religious Right has coincided with the privatization movement in public schools. While some may feel that this is coincidental, there...
Month : September 2020
Dana Milbank on the Debate Between Trump and Biden
I watched the debate in full with a sense of horror and disgust. Trump was a bully. He was rude and overbearing. Trump was obnoxious....
Tennessee Court of Appeals Rejects Voucher Plan!
The Tennessee Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision that Governor Bill Lee’s voucher plan is unconstitutional. The voucher plan was supposed to be...
G.F. Brandenburg: How Democrats Should Handle the Hearings on Supreme Court Nominee
Blogger G.F. Brandenburg discovered a very clever post by Bill Svelmoe advising Democrats how to handle the hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy C. Barrett....
North Carolina: Segregation and Charter Schools
The National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, recently released a major study of segregation and charter schools...
Trump, Facing Financial Ruin, Sought Control of His Father’s Estate
The Washington Post published this fascinating story about Trump’s determination to gain control of his ailing father’s estate, at the expense of his siblings. There...
CNN: Trump Campaign Releases Fake Videos and Says They Are a Joke
CNN reporter Donnie O’Sullivan reports that the Trump campaign is releasing doctored videos that purport to show that Biden is senile or is an extremist....
Billionaire Reed Hastings Gives $925,000 to Charter Candidate for LAUSD
Once again, control of the Los Angeles Unified School Distict school board is up for grabs, and once again the billionaires hope to buy control...
Jan Resseger Loves Derek Black’s “Stunning” New Book
Jan Resseger read Derek Black’s new book–a history of American public education by a constitutional lawyer–and loved it. I read Black’s book and interviewed him...
White House Pressured CDC to Change Guidelines for Students
The first set of guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control warned that schools needed to take safety precautions to protect students and staff before...