Photograph; House Speaker and state Democratic Party chair Michael Madigan (left) shakes hands with Mustafa Demir, the mayor of Fatih district in Turkey. By Dan Mihalopoulos | Originally Published at The Chicago Sun Times. December 23, 2013 When Concept Schools Inc. wanted to open two charter schools [...]
Words wield as weapons. Attitudes are our stronger armaments. Our beliefs are the bombs that brutalize a nation for generations. Poverty, we say is the greatest petard. Perhaps poverty is but a symptom of the greater scourge – our way of thinking. It is our point of [...]
Group aims to start its own school Photograph; Video Capture WDSU Television. To View Video. CONCERNED COMMUNITY LEADERS WHO TOOK A STAND TODAY AGAINST WHAT THEY CALL THE "PRISON-LIKE DISCIPLINARY CODE" AT A LOCAL SCHOOL. AS AN ACT OF PROTEST, SOME PARENTS ARE REMOVING THEIR [...]
Photograph; The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group, is known for its violent past and white-hooded costume "The more things change the more they stay the same." "The times, they are a changin'." Will we? Florida school named after KKK leader to change [...]
By Robert Mann | Originally Published at Something Like Truth. December 16, 2013 Gov. Bobby Jindal’s troubled private-school voucher program took another hit today. This time, it came in the form of highly critical report by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor, who cited numerous accountability deficiencies in the [...]
By Michael Deshotels | Originally Published at The Louisiana Educator. December 16, 2013 This report is based on data provided by the Louisiana Department of Education.
Are we there yet? Where? Are we ready to do more than lament, that yes, maybe, mental health is a problem? We say it is, but we never give up the ghost. With only 42% of the vote, in 1981, former Governor Ronald Reagan moved into the [...]
Photograph; Renee Wyman, a paid signature checker for the state elections office, counts signatures for the charter school Initiative 1240 in July 2012 in the State Elections Office in Olympia. (Anna Marum/Murrow News Service) By Manuel Valdes, Associated Press | Originally Published at The Columbian. December 12, [...]
By Valerie Strauss | Originally Published at The Washington Post. Updated: December 12 at 5:00 am Education reform policy around the country is increasingly being made in secret or without public input — and with a lot of private philanthropic money. A number of recent stories reveal [...]
