When word recently broke that Chicago’s Noble Network of Charter Schools was raking in $386,745 over the last three years by charging students fees for everything from chewing gum to not looking teachers in the…
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The Mind Trust’s “Opportunity” for Indianapolis Corporate Schools
As Bart Peterson and David Harris’ Mind Trust sells its “Opportunity School” agenda (PDF) to the City-County Council Community Affairs Committee this week, it is time to get one thing straight. The Mind Trust plan…
Palm Beach County School Board Considering Shady Charter School Applications
What do Florida and Indiana have in common? They are both laboratories for the New America. Which explorer in history did the most damage to an indigenous population? Pick any one, right? When the pirates…
Betrayal Merits the Deepest Pit: John Gregg Supported by Corporate Ed Reform Funders
Doug Martin offers an open letter to Indiana gubernatorial candidate John Gregg. Calling himself a democrat–what we might now call the Secular Corporate Party if we’re trying to “define terms” (for you bobby v)–Gregg is…
Parent Revolution: Not Your Parents, Not a Revolution
INDIANA CORPORATE SCHOOL UPDATES FOR JANUARY 22, 2012 Once again, ISTA’s Nate Schnellenberger wishy-washes around fighting off the Indiana corporate school reformers, this time in response to the fake parent trigger bill. Nate says “We think…
Twist the Barrel: Opposing ALEC’s Parent Trigger in Indiana
Disarmament sculpture at the UN* (Please use the following as a template to email to your Indiana congresspeople now.) Yesterday, the Parent Trigger bill passed an Indiana House committee. Although Rep. Rhonda Rhoads’ House Bill…
Imperial Philanthropy: Using Education Reform to Buy the Earth and Sky
Editor’s note: Doug Martin’s work supplies a kind of corrective to the simple “top-line” story and understanding of the education reform movement. It can be understood to be “about” management and assessment to enforce a…
Boycotting the Indiana Press’s Corporate School Reform Agenda
Through biased reporting and their unrelenting pursuit to promote Bennett, Daniels, and the corporate school reformers, the Indiana media flunkies have been selling the privatization of our schools for too long. The time is now…
Demetrio Perez Jr. Leading Miami-Dade School Board Race, Despite Not Running
“An educated people will always be strong and free. The alternative is ignorance. Ignorance will ultimately destroy us.” Jose Marti. The 2012 Miami-Dade School Board race promises to be a close one. Not for the…
News Flash: VP Biden’s Brother Frank Has an IRS Problem
photo by D’Arcy Norman (UPDATE: In an interview with Broward/Palm Beach New Times’ Lisa Rab, Frank Biden responded to the Doug Martin article below concerning Biden’s tax debts. Rab writes the following: Meanwhile, the vice president’s brother…