Education And Public Education

NAACP and Movement for Black Lives Call for Moratorium on Charter Schools
10 Aug 2016
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford “The NAACP and the Movement for Black Lives are both on the same page when it comes to charter schools.” Both organizations called for a…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 11, 2016
12 Jul 2016
Cops Kill Revolutionary Black Panther Leader Friends and comrades of Angelo Brown, also known as General Houdari Juelani, charge he was “assassinated” by police in Belleville, Illinois, near East St…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 6, 2016
07 Jun 2016
McKinney: Duopoly is Imploding, But What Comes Next? The 2016 election is going to be “written about and studied for a very long time,” said six-term former Georgia Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 30, 2016
31 May 2016
Jill Stein: U.S. Electoral “House of Cards” Coming Down Presidential candidate Jill Stein has an answer tor those Democrats that accuse the Greens of offering themselves as “spoilers” who would throw…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 9, 2016
10 May 2016
Detroit Teachers “Browbeaten” Back to Work by National Union The two-day teachers sick-out that closed Detroit public schools last week was about much more than paycheck issues, said Steve Conn, the…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 25, 2016
26 Apr 2016
Charter Schools: Bad for Education “On the whole, charter schools do not perform better than public schools, even though public school are being defunded and demonized all the time,” said Dr. Shawgi…
Just What We Need: More Black Celebrity Charter School Crooks... I Mean 'Entrepreneurs'
31 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Sean “Diddy” Combs, with accomplices Iyanla Vanzant and privatization hustler Steve Perry are fronting the Capital Prepatory…
Good News, Bad News as Post-Obama Fight For Public Education Goes Local
23 Mar 2016
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon There's a video of a little black girl weeping when told that Barack Obama will soon leave office. If she and her parents knew…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 14, 2016
15 Mar 2016
“Billionaires” Fund Defamation of Public Schools, Teachers A poll commissioned by In The Public Interest shows Americans still hold public schools and teachers in high regard, want charter schools to…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 29, 2016
01 Mar 2016
Sanders, Trump Campaigns May Crash Both Parties “The Bernie Sanders movement might break out into a major conflict at the convention in Philadelphia if the Sanders people feel that they’re being…