Earlier this morning I was trying to begin to really grapple with the determinism of guys like Pinker and Dennett (these are liberal determinists–meaning they have good intentions, really, they promise with a spoon full of the toxin formerly known as sugar), folks that see the forces at work in nature as being primarily a [...]
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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 1219 has her name on it, the Parent Trigger bill was written and supported by the Heartland Institute and ALEC, [...]
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 board members, mind you, but for the for-profit charter schools competing to buy votes to open more of their schools. [...]
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 also cleared up a mystery about a federal tax lien filed against him in Kentucky. The $32,500 in unpaid income [...]
Frank Biden and Privatizers Buying Nation’s 11th-Largest School District
(UPDATED NOTE, 1/31/2012: Frank Barbieri, as promised, returned all checks from members of Mavericks on January 10, 2012.) (UPDATED NOTE: I recently discovered this statement by Frank Barbieri, posted on the facebook page “Testing is Not Teaching, in response to the article below: Simply put, my votes are not for sale. The PBC School Board [...]
The Crony Corruption of the Indiana Charter School Board: Mining Kids for Cash
(The following is a letter Doug Martin recently sent to the Indiana Charter School Board, which is now taking comments concerning their corporate school reform agenda. Take the opportunity to email them and let them know you do not approve of selling our kids off to the privatizers invading our state. Their email address is [...]
VP Biden’s Brother Frank Shovels for Mavericks in Education
When Lisa Rab outed Joe Biden’s brother, Frank, as a major force behind a for-profit education management organization (EMO) dead set on building 100 new charter schools across Florida,* it came as no surprise to anyone who has been paying the slightest bit of attention to the corporate school reform movement, the Obama/Biden/Duncan regime, or [...]
The News Imbued with Charter Ague
Our friend and contributor Doug Martin updates us daily, bright and early, at his Facebook page, Indiana Government Exposed, as to the extent in which our public schools are being degraded, down-graded, and defunded by political operatives (no district representatives these) in the service of Big Money and Religion (odd how these two often seem [...]
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