Florida: Billy Townsend Dissects Politicians’ Lame Efforts to Ban CRT and Deny Racism
This is another wonderful post by Billy Townsend about politics and education in Florida. He begins by questioning the staff of a Black Republican Congressman,...
Category : Racism
My View of the 1619 Project
When I grew up in Houston, Texas, I attended segregated public schools. Everything was segregated, including movie theaters, drinking foundations, churches, restaurants, public transit (the...
Criticisms of The 1619 Project
Criticism of The 1619 Project appeared soon after its publication. On the right, it was denounced as an unjustified, outrageous attack on traditional American values...
The 1619 Project: Essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones
A series of essays called The 1619 Project was published in August 2019 by The New York Times Magazine, the nation’s most prestigious newspaper. Its...
Billy Townsend: Jones High School in Florida Is Far Better Than the Deregulated, Unaccountable Voucher Schools That the State Prefers
Billy Townsend served as a school board member in Polk County, Florida. He now blogs about the schools in his state and takes aim at...
An Important New Book About New Orleans and Its Schools
Three scholars have recently published a very informative book about the history of education in New Orleans. The authors tell this story by scrutinizing one...
Florida: Inside the Dark, Dirty Secrets of Florida’s Jeb Crow Schools of “Choice”
Billy Townsend was a school board member in Polk County, Florida. He saw up close and personal how charters were sucking the high-scoring students out...
Why Zip Codes Matter
From the earliest days of corporate reform, which is now generally recognized to have been a failed effort to “reform” schools by privatizing them and...
Dr. Seuss and “Cancel Culture”
The publisher of the many books written by Theodor Geisl (“Dr. Seuss”) announced that it was suspending publication of six books that contained demeaning drawings...
New Orleans: The Other Side of the Story
I recently interviewed Raynard Sanders, a veteran educator in New Orleans, about his new book The Coup D’etat of the New Orleans Public Schools: Money,...