| Black Agenda Report

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for week of September 18, 2017
19 Sep 2017
“Grassroots Pressure” Propels Single Payer
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Parents Oppose Excessive Testing
19 Sep 2017
A poll commissioned by the American Federation of Teachers shows 61 percent of public school parents think too much emphasis is placed on testing, and what schools need most is more funding.
Michelle R. Matisons
Florida's Privatizing Education Disaster
06 Sep 2017
"More people seem to be waking up to the idea that failing schools are a mere symptom of broader racial engineering and class warfare agendas.”
Jennifer Berkshire
Race and the Right’s War on “Government Schools”
30 Aug 2017
“These white property holders who suppressed the vote of all other citizens really did not want to pay taxes to support the education of any but their own children.”
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 22, 2017
23 May 2017
U.S. Healthcare is Profiteered to Death
23 May 2017
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Study Shows School Vouchers Hurt Students – But Trump and DeVos Couldn't Care Less
04 May 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos are old school “segregation academy” politicians with strong ideological investments in private school…
Who Is Behind the Assault on Public Schools?
03 May 2017
by Howard Ryan The author believes that school privatization, in the guise of “reform,” is primarily “led by organized coalitions of major corporations, who seek a curriculum suited to their own…
Single Payer Makes a Breakthrough on Capitol Hill
02 May 2017
Bill Quigley
Major Challenges of New Orleans Charter Schools Exposed at NAACP Hearing
26 Apr 2017
by Bill Quigley Former Obama education chief Arne Duncan declared that Katrina was the best thing that ever happened to New Orleans schools, which switched to a nearly all-charter system. But, Black…