Scandal in Rhode Island, continued…
I posted Aaron Regunberg’s article in The Providence Journal, in which Governor Dan McKee awarded a $5.1 million contract to a brand-new firm created by...
Category : Scandal
Politico: Give Bernie Sanders’ Credit for Pushing Biden Relief Bill
Politico writes that Senator Bernie Sanders deserves credit for key features of the $1.9 trillion Biden plan and for encouraging Biden not to compromise with...
A 50-State Analysis of PPP Funding of Charter Schools, Religious Schools, and Private Schools
Good Jobs First has studied the distribution of COVID relief funds in depth. It created a site called COVID Stimulus Watch. It published an article...
How Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin Took Control of the USPS
The New York Times published a detailed investigation that explained how the Trump administration, acting through the Treasury Secretary, took control of the United States...
Corruption Watch: DeVos Awarded $72 Million to IDEA Charter Chain Despite Negative Staff Reviews!
Three whistleblowers in the U.S. Department of Education filed complaints that Betsy DeVos overruled internal reviews to award $72 million to the IDEA charter chain....
You Read It Here First: Betsy Uses Relief Funds to Push Vouchers and Online Ed
I posted yesterday that Betsy DeVos set aside more than $300 million of the billions in coronavirus aid to advance her personal agenda of undermining...
Indiana: Key Employees of Failed Online Charter Join New Online Charter
Last year, two large online charter schools collapsed in Indiana at a cost of $86 million. Now a new online charter has opened and hired...
Massachusetts: A Parent Thanks a State Official Who Exposed Dark Money
One of the very exciting episodes in my new book SLAYING GOLIATH describes the struggle in Massachusetts surrounding a 2016 referendum to expand the number...
Houston: The Betrayal of the Public Schools As State Attacks Democracy
The public schools of Houston are going to be taken over by the incompetent State Education Department, which has never run a school district of...
Scandal: College Board Sells Student Data for $$$
The Wall Street Journal published an expose of the College Board’s practice of selling student data, which is illegal in some states. The colleges buy...