Education And Public Education

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Detroit Teachers Strike Against Disaster Capitalism
05 May 2016
The corporate narrative on the Detroit teacher’s sick-out is that the public schools are “failing,” just as the city has “failed” to manage its own finances. But the state has intervened in Detroit’s…
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…
Drew Franklin
Why DeRay Mckesson's Baltimore Campaign Looks Like It Comes Right Out of Teach for America's Playbook
24 Feb 2016
by Drew Franklin Twitterist and Campaign Zero honcho DeRay McKesson’s mayoral campaign platform for the Baltimore public schools “seems modeled in part on corporate education reforms under big-…
Single Payer Health Care Still More Popular Than Obamacare
23 Dec 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Obama’s legacy is having set back the cause of universal health care many years through his duplicitous switch to a corporate-based…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The Obama Education Legacy Part 2: Obama Appoints Another Privatizing Stooge Secretary of Education
04 Nov 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When president-elect Barack Obama announced Arne Duncan would be Secretary of Education in December 2008, Black Agenda Report called him an “underqualified…
Dr. Walter C. Farrell Jr.
Public School Privatization Strategies: What Teachers, Unions, and Public Education Stakeholders Should Know
04 Nov 2015
The future of public education is not guaranteed. A corporate-financed “Cartel has infiltrated every level of the political structure by utilizing targeted campaign contributions and has cultivated…