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...
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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...
Tim Slekar Interviews Carol Burris about Charter Scandals
Carol Burris is one of the best-informed observers of the charter industry. Tim Slekar interviewed her on his podcast #BustED Pencils. Like this:...
Tom Ultican: How Charter Operators Scammed $50 Million (or More) from California
Tom Ultican writes here about the biggest charter fraud in history (to this date). This fraud was not one of those one-day wonders that...
National Charter School Conference Honors Its Heroes
We are bummed you couldn’t make it, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a little taste of Vegas during the 2019 National Charter Schools...
EdSource: Why California Charter Schools Have Little or No Oversight
Louis Freedberg of EdSource explains here why California charter schools are largely unsupervised, leading to a drumbeat of scandals like the recent indictment of...
Steven Singer: Charters Are Gobbling Up My Public School District
Steven Singer doesn’t research or data to describe what is happening to his school district. He sees it. It is being gobbled up outsiders...
Chris Hughes: It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
Chris Hughes co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg. He is no longer part of the company but left with a considerable fortune. For a time, he...
Robert Kuttner on the Role of Democrats in Gutting Unions
In Which the Superb Tom Edsall Gets One Big Thing Wrong About Unions. New York Times contributing columnist Tom Edsall is a national resource. In...
Arizona: Sham Charter “Reform” Exempts Major Chains
Legislation introduced by an influential Republican state senator would require charter schools to disclose more about their finances. But the bill contains a large loophole...