Posts Tagged: Public Schools
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Why Not Occupy The Schools? The Failures Of Bloomberg's School Reform Agenda

What’s next for the Occupy Wall Street movement as it regroups after its eviction from Zuccotti Park? A small but energetic group of New York City education activists hope the Occupiers will channel their rage toward Mayor Mike Bloomberg by taking a closer look at his local school reform record.

Last Friday at noon, some two-dozen of these protestors, many of them black and Latino parents with kids in the public schools, crowded the sidewalk on the east side of Zuccotti Park. Pack the book bags of our kids! Not the pockets of the rich!, they chanted. They mostly failed to attract the attention of the hard-core Occupiers—the tent-dwellers—who were [...]

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A Guide to American Majority's Plan to Dismantle Public Schools

On Tuesday we published an in-depth look at how Republican representatives running for office lied to union reps during the vetting process—lies which directly led to those Republican candidates receiving union endorsements. We also looked at how American Majority, a far right conservative organization founded by the Sam Adams Alliance, had become active in Wisconsin. Their goal: training candidates to take over school boards and city council seats to better use the "tools" in Governor Scott Walker's budget "repair" bill.

A very polite person named Kasey Ginsberg identified herself in the comments of that piece as an American Majority employee and offered some "corrections."

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America's Papers Freak You Out About Your Children

Your baby can't talk; it is endangered by common household products; it will be shuffled into a public school where it will be ignored and poorly educated, at best! Feel the terror from the nation's papers from this weekend!

• The Boston Globe fronted a Shocking Story about how children on disability… sometimes have speech and behavioral problems! And then they stay on these benefits for a very long time! (A "Delayed speech" diagnosis, for example, can qualify a kid for social security disability payments. Yes? Their point being: disability cases are supposed to get "a full medical review every three years, but from 2000 to 2008 the [...]