by Education Radio
Founded in 1990 by Wendy Kopp, Teach For America has become the personnel agency for corporate school reform. School districts fire experienced, often black teachers to hire underpaid TFA recruits with 5 weeks training to do brief "missionary work" stints in public schools before moving on. Turning teaching into Wal-Mart style temp work is what TFA is all about.
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The proposed 854-bed facility will be a hybrid jail, hospital and mental health and substance use treatment facility for people facing criminal charges.
No amount of verbal gymnastics can escape the simple truth that indigenous resistance is crucial to ending colonial atrocities.
Puerto Ricans protested Harris’ visit citing the ongoing US occupation of Puerto Rico and support to Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.
In the fight for the liberation of Palestine, reject the reactionary politics of bourgeois feminism and embrace a liberatory struggle led by Palestinian women.
This week we hear about right wing forces in San Francisco who worked with the Black democratic mayor to criminalize poverty. But first Dr. Gerald Horne discusses Gaza and Ukraine, the contradictions…
