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Ezra McCoy
Roc Nation’s Lobbying Efforts Cast Suspicion on Jay Z’s Association with GOP’s Top Funder
19 Jun 2024
Jay Z has consistently shown himself willing to be used as a Black face to run cover for conservative political endeavors. He is now promoting a voucher program that will reduce funding for public…
Stan Karp
Getting a Covid-19 Education: From Race to the Top to a Plunge to the Bottom
27 May 2020
As bad as the Obama/Duncan era was for public education, the current administration is even more hostile.
Eugene Stovall
Privatizing Oakland Schools
04 Feb 2020
Eli Broad (rhymes with “toad”) conconcted a scheme to privatize Oakland’s public schools and produce a revenue stream for his billionaire cronies.
Jeff Bryant
Why Public Schools’ Best Days Could Be Ahead of Us
03 Jul 2019
Many school districts that were seized by the states are returning to local control, but without adequate funding.
Annie Waldman
How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter School Movement
26 Jun 2019
The huge nonprofit is backed by billionaire school privatizers with a sophisticated agenda.
Jeff Bryant
Charter School Support Slipping Among Democrats
15 May 2019
Barack Obama was the nation’s most pro-charter president, but much of his party has grown leery of them.
Jeff Bryant
Denver Teachers’ Strike Was a Rejection of Education ‘Reform’
13 Mar 2019
Teachers in the school district that was supposed to be the model for education reform just rebelled—and won.
Behind the News with Doug Henwood
Los Angeles Teachers Use the Old Successful Organizing Methods
14 Feb 2019
Like the 2006 strike of 30,000 NYC transit workers, and the 2012 strike of 30,000 Chicago teachers, the 2019 Los Angeles teacher strike made the lives of tens and hundreds of thousands of ordinary
Eric Blanc
Cory Booker Hates Public Schools
06 Feb 2019
Cory Booker rose to prominence as a fanatical backer of school privatization, yet poses as a friend of public education and teachers.
Michelle Matisons
Relocated Puerto Rican Families Are Florida’s Latest Class War Targets
18 Oct 2017
“Trump’s treatment of Puerto Ricans as “third world class” citizens will also be reflected in the school and housing conditions available to Puerto Ricans arriving in Florida.”