Education And Public Education

Obama and the Charter School Sugar Daddies
02 Jun 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford As hedge funds spin their financial webs to spur charter school expansion and President Obama bullies states to lift caps on charters, "right-wing…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
When "Reforming Education" Means Destroying Communities
07 Apr 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The summary firing of tens or hundreds of thousands of inner city public school teachers in the Obama administration's race to privatize education will wreak…
Obama Sec'y of Education Says Katrina "the Best Thing to Happen" to Education in New Orleans
03 Feb 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford If obscene utterances were a crime, education secretary Arne Duncan would be jailed for life. Like all disaster capitalists, he views poor people's…
Send In the Clowns: 3 Stooges, Gingrich, Sharpton & Duncan Hit the Road For Corporate “School Reform”
19 Aug 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Bruce Dixon Quite separately from each other, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Rev. Al Sharpton and Newt Gingrich have long ago forfeited whatever credibility…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Obama's Public Education Policy: Privatization, Charters, Mass Firings, Neighborhood Destabilization
01 Jul 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Last weekend in Chicago, US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivered the keynote address at Rainbow PUSH's annual conference and education roundtable.…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Teachers File Racial Discrimination Suit Against Obama Administration's School “Turnaround” Plan
17 Jun 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Public-private partnerships between Chicago's City Hall, where two men named Richard Daley have ruled more than 40 of the last 55 years, and a gaggle of…
George Schmidt
Obama Ordering States to Close 5,000 'Failing' Schools!... Chicago Lies Go National
03 Jun 2009
by George Schmidt The corporate narrative that public schools in minority neighborhoods are "failing" and must be replaced by unaccountable but often highly profitable "charter schools" is an…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Did Barack Obama Just Appoint An Underqualified Stooge and Privatizer Secretary of Education?
24 Dec 2008
Black Agenda Report's Bruce Dixon interviews Chicago educator and activist George Schmidt The short answer seems to be "yes." Before being appointed CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Arne…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s Blues: charter schools and the rest of us
22 Oct 2008
by michael hureaux John McCain and Barack Obama "share the same market nostrums for education reform, from charter schools to merit pay to the test mania of No Child Left Behind," but have no…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Fruit Of The Poisoned Tree: The Hard Right's Plan To Capture Newark NJ
05 Apr 2002
by Glen Ford In this groundbreaking 2002 article, which appeared in the very first issue of the Black Commentator, co-founded by Glen Ford, the author throws prophetic light on the early career and…