Education And Public Education

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Democrats, Including Bernie Sanders, Won’t Fight for Medicare for All
01 Feb 2017
If there is one political project that commands overwhelming support among Democrats -- plus large minorities of Republicans – it is Medicare for All. But Democratic leaders insist that all their…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 30, 2017
30 Jan 2017
Obamacare is Doomed; It’s Time for Single Payer Instead of attempting to salvage the doomed and fatally flawed Affordable Healthcare Act, progressives should seize the time and push for single payer…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 23, 2017
24 Jan 2017
Irrationality Reigns: After All the Lies, Some Folks Still Believe the CIA Ajamu Baraka, the Green Party’s vice 2016 presidential candidate, said he is appalled at the spectacle of “progressives” and…
The Real News Network
Trump's Truly Awful Pick for Secretary of Education
19 Jan 2017
Right wing billionaire Betsy DeVos sponsored pro-privatization initiatives with millions of her own money in Michigan.
Shea Howell
Trump’s Education Pick Will Continue Chartered Destruction of Detroit Schools
14 Dec 2016
by Shea Howell A fabulously rich white woman who has never been a public school parent or student -- and who seems to despise public education – has been tapped for secretary of education. Betsy…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Nov 28, 2016
29 Nov 2016
GOP Plans Stealth Attack on Medicare Republicans in Congress have “never really liked Social Security or Medicare” because the programs “work and they completely go against the ideology that the…
Time For the Real Left To Double Down on Single Payer Medicare For All
16 Nov 2016
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Bruce A. Dixon Under President Obama, Democrats threw away their mandate to fight for health care for. Instead they let insurance companies concoct Obamacare,…
Leah Fried
In Chicago, Teachers and Black Lives Matter Activists Partner to Build a Bigger Movement
08 Nov 2016
When the Chicago Teachers Union goes on strike, it doesn’t walk alone; Movement 4 Black Lives organizations have their back. And, when young Black activists campaign against police terror, the…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Nov. 7, 2016
08 Nov 2016
Hi-Tech Production in the Service of Humanity in Mississippi Renaissance Jackson, the organization that briefly won the mayor’s office in predominantly Black Jackson, Mississippi, has launched a…
Paul Buchheit
New Layers of Dirt on Charter Schools
26 Oct 2016
by Paul Buchheit Despite ever mounting evidence to the contrary, corporate media and corporate-bought politicians continue to proclaim the superiority of charter schools. Meanwhile, “nearly 2,500…