Archives for December 10, 2011

#OccupyBigEd: “….how for-profit colleges survived the threat of a major federal crackdown offers a case study in Washington power brokering. Rattled by the administration’s tough talk, the colleges spent more than $16 million on an all-star list of…

Presidential hopeful Santorum insists on breaking up families through deportation even as businesses withdraw from Alabama due to the draconian anti-immigrant law they’ve enacted. Separating citizen children from their undocumented parents is cruel, & …

“Uncommon courage” has proven nonexistent among our legislative representatives. All 28 Republican assembly members, including Nathan Fletcher, have signed and abided by the Grover Norquist anti-tax pledge and almost all Republican state senators have signed the pledge, creating gridlock in our state capital that has led to Faustian bargains and draconian cuts to education and other services to children and families. The report also stated, “Everyone professes to put students first. But collectively, the results suggest otherwise.”