A Texas-Sized Destroy Public Education IDEA
First it was KIPP, then it was YES Prep and now IDEA has become the point of the destroy public education (DPE) spear in Texas. KIPP flourished because GAP founders Don and Doris Fisher gave them big...
View ArticleMarshall Tuck: The Republicans’ Trojan Horse
In last week’s column, I wrote that “the future of public education and the heart and soul of progressive California” were at stake in the Superintendent of Public Instruction race. What makes this...
View ArticleThe Union-Tribune’s False Narrative on Education and the Race for...
A recent editorial in the San Diego Union-Tribune called for electing a former banker and charter school chief as Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI). Following a familiar destroy public...
View ArticleHow the Wealthy Destroy Public Schools, One Gift at a Time
By Jeff Bryant / Campaign for America's Future News about wealthy folks giving millions to education draw both praise and criticism. But two new reports by public education advocacy groups reveal the...
View ArticleThe How and Why of Measure YY, the San Diego Unified School District Bond Ask
Back in the old days before Proposition 13, local schools were funded locally. School boards had the authority to raise property tax rates, constrained by the understanding that the electorate would...
View ArticleReaders Write | Why I Support Nicoles Jones for the Southwestern College...
By Michael Flanders I am proud to provide this endorsement of Nicole Jones for Seat 4 on the Southwestern College Board of Trustees. I've seen firsthand how she creates culturally sensitive programs...
View ArticleBig Spending on Privatizing San Antonio Public Schools
Federal dollars are supplementing deep pocketed Destroy Public Education (DPE) forces in an effort to privatize schools in San Antonio, Texas. The total monetary support for the preferred charter...
View ArticleFrom the Network for Public Education Conference: “We Are Winning!”
Diane Ravitch opened the fifth Network for Public Education (NPE) conference stating, “We are the resistance and we are winning!” She noted that “reformers” were envious of our domination of social...
View ArticleLessons From the Continuing Assault on Kansas City Public Schools
For three decades relentless harm has been visited upon public schools in Kansas City, Missouri. This city provides stark evidence for the fallacy of school choice and the folly of employing...
View ArticleThrive Charter Schools All Hat and No Cattle
Excellent public relations and marketing mask a substandard educational program at the inappropriately named Thrive Public Schools (TPS). The misleading name indicates that this private business is a...
View ArticleReview and Preview of Tony Thurmond vs. Marshall Tuck
By Thomas Ultican / Ultican This year’s biggest election win in California was for the down-ballot office, Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI). Tony Thurmond defeated Marshall Tuck in a proxy...
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