Chicago Public Schools: subject to “Mayor 1%” Rahm Emanuel’s harsh, privatizing “turnaround” tactics.Chicago Teachers Battle Mayor 1%www.commondreams.orgRahm Emanuel, whom Occupy Chicago has dubbed Mayor 1%, fired another shot at the city’s public sc…
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Taxpayer money to support private religious schools — how? By using tricky word…
Taxpayer money to support private religious schools — how? By using tricky words like “school choice” to fool the public.The Moneychangers: How Florida’s “Education Reform” Movement Uses Religion to Manipulate the Public In the wake of a recent circui…
MITx offers free access to courses also offered at the university; doesn't lead…
MITx offers free access to courses also offered at the university; doesn’t lead to an MIT degree, but instead a certificate of completion. It may also suck the air out of online for-profit colleges who have no bricks/mortar presence, nor do they have a…
Some great news about Latino enrollment at CA state colleges — it's up at CSU's…
Some great news about Latino enrollment at CA state colleges — it’s up at CSU’s! Let’s make sure the UC’s are also in reach, & retention & graduation rates stay strong. Calif. Schools Lead the Way Preparing Next Generation of Workers: Latinos – New Am…
AZ judge rules Mexican American Studies in violation of AZ law — a clear attack…
AZ judge rules Mexican American Studies in violation of AZ law — a clear attack on Mexican Americans. Why were African American, Native, and Asian American studies in Tucson not similarly targeted?Tucson’s ethnic-studies program violates Arizona law, …
More school officials seem emboldened to include Christian religious observance,…
More school officials seem emboldened to include Christian religious observance, contra First Amendment principles, in public school activities. 🙁 Via ACLU Nationwide, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Americans Against Islamophobia…