Oklahoma: “Backpack“ Aims to Defund Public Schools
Inspired perhaps by the anti-public school rhetoric of Betsy DeVos or funded perhaps by billionaire Charles Koch or encouraged by Trump’s white evangelical base, Oklahoma...
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Maurice Cunningham: Why is the Press Uninterested in the Corporate Invasion of Public Education?
Readers of this blog have followed the advance of privatization of public school funding for nearly a decade. We know the big foundations and individuals...
New Hampshire: Rightwing Commissioner Offers Top Job to DeVos Clone
Since the 2020 election, Republicans have controlled both houses of the New Hampshire. The governor is Chris Sununu, a very conservative Republican and son of...
ALERT! Red State Governors Push DeVos Privatization Agenda As They Celebrate “School Choice Week”
Betsy DeVos made the goal of school choice clear: Shift public dollars away from public schools and transfer them to privately managed charter schools, online...
Iowa: Act NOW to Save Your Public Schools!
Governor Kim Reynolds has proposed legislation to take money away from Ohio public schools and divert it to privately managed schools, vouchers for religious schools,...
BREAKING NEWS! QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Appointed to House Education and Labor Committee
The House Republican conference just indulged in a sick joke: It assigned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to the House Education and Labor Committee. Rep. Greene...
Breaking News! Oklahoma Gov. Stitt Removes New Member of State Board of Education
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt accepted the resignation of Melissa Crabtree, whom he appointed four days earlier. Crabtree is a home-schooling parent who has vociferously opposed...
Jack Schneider: Is Homeschooling The Next Big Thing?
Jack Schneider is a historian of education. In this post, which he wrote at my request, he analyzes the new push for homeschooling. In the...
Rachel Cohen: Pandemic Creates Opening for Public Funding of Home Schooling
Rachel Cohen writes that the pandemic is encouraging many parents to consider home schooling and to pressure Congress to pay them to do it. I...
Laura Chapman: What “Money Follows the Child” Really Means
Our reader Laura Chapman explains what the phrase “the money follows the child” really means. It’s another way of saying that every child should have...