Donald Cohen: “Market-Based” School Reform Has Failed
Donald Cohen is the executive director of “In the Public Interest” and co-author of an important new book The Privatization of Everything. He titled this...
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Tom Ultican on THE PRIVATIZATION OF EVERYTHING
Tom Ultican has written extensively about the greed and politics behind privatization. In this post, he reviews an important new book about the dangers of...
Chile: Former Student Leader Wins Presidency
The people of Chile are expunging the last traces of the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet. They elected Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old member of the Chilean...
New Hampshire: State Commissioner Frank Edelblut Is Waging War Against Public Schools
The author of this article, Joe Shapiro, is a Democratic member of the state legislature in New Hampshire. Conservative Republican Governor Chris Sununu appointed home-schooling...
Peter Greene Responds to the WSJ Attack on Public Schools
The Wall Street Journal, owned by billionaire RupertMurdoch (who also owns Fox News), runs a steady diet of anti-public school editorials. Sometimes they bash public...
Denis Smith Warns West Virginia about Their New Charter Law: Expect a Train Wreck
Denis Smith went to graduate school in West Virginia and served as an elementary and middle school principal, director of curriculum, and director of federal...
Karen Francisco: Why I Fight to Save Public Schools
Karen Francisco is the editorial page editor of the The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette in Indiana. She is one of the few journalists who are outspoken...
Texas: Legislature Debates Whether to Make It Easier to Open Charter Schools
The charter industry is turning its lobbyists loose in Texas. Despite the large number of charters in the state (more than 800), the lobbyists want...
Tim Wu: How America Outsourced Its Ability to Fight Pandemic
Tim Wu is a law professor at Columbia University. He ran for Lt. Governor in New York on a progressive ticket with Zephyr Teachout. On...
Jersey Jazzman Dissects the Camden, New Jersey, Story Line
Jersey Jazzman knows that the leaders of the Disruption Movement are always on the hunt for proof that their theories work. One model district...