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For people concerned about insurrectionist elements of the Republican Party in the Trump era, this story may help sort out some of the paradoxes. For starters, how can a religion be anti-religion? Here are a few excerpts from a story I recently...
by Frederick Clarkson
on Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 11:14 AM PDT
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The race is on to save half a million kids from the ideological extremism of the richest family in the United States. In December, a coalition of education and civil rights activists first submitted the text for a proposed constitutional amendment that...
by Blue Tuesday
on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 12:11 PM PST
with 338 Recommends
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Ten years ago, in an essay for the Washington Post, I wrote that the federal push for charter schools had corroded commitment to community responsibility in the United States. Students, educators, and parents had suffered through the Obama...
by acamins
on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 04:52 PM PST
with 10 Recommends
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Liar, Liar. Pants on Fire. The lies from the powerful, especially Republicans, have risen to stunningly Orwellian 2 + 2 = 5 levels. The lies that protect their wealth and power have been quite successful at gaining wide acceptance. They keep at it...
by acamins
on Fri Dec 01, 2023 at 07:31 AM PST
with 6 Recommends
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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law last spring creating a new school voucher program as part of what she called a “transformational education plan, unleashing a new era of freedom, ...
by Laura Clawson
on Sun Oct 15, 2023 at 10:30 AM PDT
with 143 Recommends
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In the late 1950s, Johnny Carson hosted the television game show “Who do you trust?” The 2023 answer for far too many Americans appears to be, “Not institutions and certainly not my government!” That is alarming because, like it or not, our lives...
by acamins
on Tue Oct 10, 2023 at 08:00 AM PDT
with 9 Recommends
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At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, no one was more adamant about forcing kids back into classrooms than Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeSantis threatened to cut funding to schools that refused to open or tried to conduct remote classes. He threatened...
by Mark Sumner
on Tue Sep 05, 2023 at 04:31 PM PDT
with 269 Recommends
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“All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you...
by acamins
on Tue Aug 08, 2023 at 06:49 AM PDT
with 8 Recommends
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The Nebraska legislature passed the so-called Opportunity Scholarships Act, or Legislative Bill 753, which allows taxpayers to divert up to half of their state income taxes to organizations providing scholarships to attend private and religious...
by NebraskaDemocrat
on Mon Jun 26, 2023 at 06:53 AM PDT
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In Kansas on Wednesday, through bipartisan work, a piece of legislation aimed at ending public education as we know it through vouchers was defeated in committee. HB 2218 would have allowed parents to set aside a portion of public school funding—about...
by Christopher Reeves
on Thu Feb 23, 2023 at 08:47 AM PST
with 83 Recommends
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School vouchers are not freedom. It is theft. Why would the U.S. object to Mexico's ban on GMO corn? Republicans continue to try to effect fraud on Social Security. Check out my books on our economic fraud, the necessity to engage the other side, and...
by Egberto Willies
on Wed Feb 15, 2023 at 01:00 PM PST
with 5 Recommends
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Republicans have been waging a war on public education for decades, a war based upon retrogressive, hate based, throwback ideologies that seek to demean, denounce, marginalize, dehumanize and ERASE those who they consider as something other. A war that...
by Jay B
on Fri Dec 02, 2022 at 03:04 AM PST
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Dennis Paul isn't exactly a money making machine when it comes to raising campaign cash. In his last financial report Paul raised $34,606, spent $21,461, and has $26,554 cash on hand. He still maintains an outstanding loan amount of $111,000. For a...
by johncoby
on Mon Jul 18, 2022 at 06:24 AM PDT
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Not surprisingly, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is wildly in support of school vouchers for private schools. Of course he is—he’s just another tool in the conservative toolbox ready to dismantle public schools in favor of religious or private education....
by Rebekah Sager
on Tue May 10, 2022 at 11:30 AM PDT
with 39 Recommends
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Welcome to the third inaugural War on Education. In this issue, I discuss the assaults on public education by the right wing crazy contingent in this nation. If you are asking about corporate charters which have support in both parties, I am covering...
by bilboteach
on Sat Apr 02, 2022 at 04:10 AM PDT
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Today’s NY TImes must read story by education reporter Erica Green www.nytimes.com/...features an expose of Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, who has quietly been using “discretion” provided to her in the CARES act, to achieve some of her long...
by ARodinFan
on Fri May 15, 2020 at 04:59 AM PDT
with 12 Recommends
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First published on Schools Matter on January 21, 2020 “In the long run, charter schools are being strategically used to pave the way for vouchers. The voucher advocates, who are very powerful and funded by right-wing foundations and families, recognize...
by rdsathene
on Tue Jan 21, 2020 at 04:39 PM PST
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Most of us still care about the wellbeing of all– now and in the future. Diane Ravitch’s Slaying Goliath is a book for us. If you count yourself as a member of that group read this book. Be prepared to be informed, angry, and incredulous, but most...
by acamins
on Mon Jan 13, 2020 at 01:21 PM PST
with 13 Recommends
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Received this e-mail from James Mackler’s (D. TN) U.S. Senate campaign:
My mother was a devoted public school teacher for 40 years. Thinking about her and everything she did to help so many children learn always brings a smile to my face....
by poopdogcomedy
on Sun May 12, 2019 at 11:16 PM PDT
with 4 Recommends
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In the future, historians and political scientists will speak of the “Ryan Gap.” That moniker will be used to measure the yawning chasm between the shining image a politician manufactures for ...
by Jon Perr
on Sun Dec 23, 2018 at 02:45 PM PST
with 112 Recommends
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