Thank you Matt Damon—Let's replace RTTT with the Zinn Education Project
In defense of Matt Damon, who recently took a cogent and principled stand against this administration's reactionary neoliberal education policies. In response, many HuffPost readers unleashed vicious...
View ArticleSpeaking truth to Camino Nuevo Charter Academy Revisionists
While the charter-voucher supporters dominate the narrative, public school supporters still have the facts on our side. Rather than allow corporate voices drown us out, we must choose to explain why...
View ArticleDemocrats for Neoliberal Education Reform
The plutocrat and corporately funded DFER has turned "Manufacturing Consent" into an art form. Here we look at how they subverted an entire state legislature to pass one of the most reactionary and...
View ArticleYellow Journalist Jim Newton Hails a Dubious Civil Rights Hero
While the media cheerleaders for school privatization via corporate charter schools are known for making some outlandish statements, this latest LA Times Op-Ed takes the cake.Originally published on...
View ArticleFielding a local reporter's questions about Camino Nuevo Charter...
Now that Philip Anschutz's LAUSD Board Member from District 5 gave CRES #14 to CNCA Corporation, we see the true intransigence and arrogance of a CMO. For over a month we've asked CNCA to write into...
View ArticleFIS recommends removing the last semblance of democracy from an already...
LAUSD's Public School Choice is already an anti-democratic measure to give public schools away to private charter corporations. Removing the advisory vote makes PSC all the more totalitarian and...
View ArticleOpineRegress: Matthew Yglesias' reactionary education policy pandering
I've been following the exchange regarding education policy between Rachel Levy and Matthew Ygelsias online. Ygelsias is a well known supporter of reactionary corporate education reform, despite his...
View ArticleNow on Schools Matter: NCTQ's LAUSD report's highly questionable veracity...
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."— Paulo FreireNCTQ's LAUSD report's highly questionable veracity shows...
View ArticleBuffalo beware of gifts from school privatizers
New York Campaign for Achievement Now (NYCAN), a right-wing school privatization astroturf group funded by anti-public school plutocrats, is pushing to bring the deceptive charter school market share...
View ArticleThe trouble with Alexander Russo
First published in Schools Matter on January 16, 2012The irony is that Russo suggests we critics have been successful because WE are coordinating ourselves! And the "reformers" ought to do the same! We...
View ArticleSherman Alexie "Arizona has made our books sacred documents now."
One of the most powerful written responses to bigots Tom Horne and John Huppenthal's book banning in Arizona.
View ArticlePeas in a pod: Koret Foundation, The Hoover Institution, and Democrats for...
This Essay explores how Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) policy positions and core ideology is identical to that of the arch-reactionary The Hoover Institution and the fringe-right Koret...
View ArticlePetrilli's polemic against Alfie Kohn: Half-reactionary, half-mendacious
First published in Schools Matter on March 26, 2012Excerpt: With a shameful broadside against the esteemed Alfie Kohn, Fordham's Michael Petrilli demonstrates once more why he's the darling of The...
View ArticleThe Struggle to Save Adult Education in Los Angeles
First published in Dissident Voice on March 24, 2012Excerpt: Using State of California budget shortfalls as an excuse, Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Superintendent John Deasy presented...
View ArticleOnce more Alex Russo afflicts the afflicted and comforts the comfortable
First published in Schools Matter on June 15, 2012Excerpt: It seems Alexander Russo just can't stand when ordinary working class people stand up to the plutocrats he serves with such aplomb. Wasn't it...
View ArticleOpen letter to Doug Tuthill of the American Center for School Choice
The so-called "Parent Trigger" is an American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) template law written primarily by right-wingers Bill Lucia of EdVoice and Ben Austin of Green Dot School Corporation....
View ArticleMónica García champions the Gülenist Charter Movement in LAUSD
First published on The Daily Censored on August 5, 2012.Los Angeles Unified School District President Mónica García supports the expansion of corporate charters schools by the Gülenist religious cult...
View ArticleVillaraigosa: The Myth of The Progressive Mayor
First published in a slightly edited form by LA Progressive on July 5, 2013Statuesque in a six thousand dollar suit, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa graced the June 2009 cover of Los Angeles...
View ArticleMarshall Tuck's Legacy of Bigotry and Failure
Neoliberal education privatizer Marshall Tuck is running for the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction seat. The business banker's callous and racist closures of both heritage language...
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K12NN Wire: Marshall Tuck run schools SAT scores remained flat, some even...
First published on K12NN Wire on August 22, 2014“The lowest-performing, based on test scores, is the large Green Dot chain.”—Los Angeles TimesMarshall Tuck's campaign literature claims "Marshall has...
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