Archives for April 9, 2012

Corporations are dropping membership in ALEC, a right-wing corporate lobbying group that pushes ready-made laws. Turns out they support privatizing public education and fund voter suppression efforts too. Not cool. ALEC: What It Does and Why Three Majo…

An HIV-positive boy turned away from a PA boarding school connected to the Hershey chocolate company. Protesters are now aiming ire at the candy company in an attempt to change the discriminatory policy. Sad, I thought I was reading an article from 198…

Via EdWeek; "If Congress doesn't stop the across-the-board cuts set to hit almost every education program next January, what would it mean? The Committee for Education Funding released charts last week that project what would happen if Congre…

Pushing black youth out of school starts with higher truancy, corporal punishment, & suspension rates: more severe punishments unjustly and more frequently applied. This is often how the schools-to-prison pipeline works. In Trayvon Martin's ca…

"Should public dollars be going to make private education more affordable?" The answer: NO. Public dollars should be used to make public schools excellent.Court challenges are brewing across US over the use of public dollars for private educa…

Post-Miramonte damage control? Puff piece before another shoe drops? LAT John Deasy profile. L.A. schools chief pushes to change system's culturewww.latimes.comIt's 7:30 a.m. and the chief of the Los Angeles Unified School District briskly …

Big $$ in the form of a wealthy NYer's campaign donations to SC state representatives has warped policy about "school choice." This is how political contributions are used to soften/open up a market for charters and other privatizing &qu…

Cats & babies can use an iPad, big whoop. Are we able to distinguish between children using tech tools to create something meaningful, versus voracious high-tech industries in search of new markets? Don't let computer companies with an agenda …