DID YOU KNOW? Florida has one of the lowest graduation rates in the country. Florida ranks 50 out of 50 in state funding per pupil. 61% of our tenth graders do not read at grade level. 578 Florida students drop out of school every day. [...]
First lady Michelle Obama exercises with children from Chicago Public Schools, in her hometown of Chicago, as she makes a major announcement helping to bring back physical activity to area schools, while celebrating the third anniversary of her 'Lets Move' program. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) Introductory Essay [...]
By David Sirota | Originally Published at PandoDaily. May 27, 2014 Last week, Gov. Chris Christie announced he will take $2.4 billion owed to New Jersey’s public pension system and use it instead to balance the state’s current budget. To hear Christie tell it, he has no [...]
Photographic Credit: Flickr/Judy Baxter By Jim Newell | Originally Published at Salon. May 22, 2014 During the Democrats’ productive 2010 lame-duck session of Congress, one of the major legislative items they were able to pass was the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, a.k.a. “Michelle Obama’s child nutrition bill.” [...]
Photo Courtesy of Don Harder, CC2.0) By Susan Eaton | The Nation. May 15, 2014 Sixty years after Brown, whiter, wealthier communities are breaking away from racially and economically diverse school districts. A new secessionist movement, anchored in the South, provides yet another reminder that “separate” [...]
Principal Troy LaRaviere was one of only a few principals to speak against budget cuts announced last July. LaRaviere says under Mayor Rahm Emanuel's hand-picked schools administration, principals have been told they must voice support for policies such as the longer school day. By Linda Lutton | [...]
Photograph; The petition was delivered five days before the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed school segregation. You Signed. Sealed. And Southern Poverty Law Delivered the Petition Demanding Florida Governor End State-Sponsored Discrimination Against Minority Students. [...]
(AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki) By Zoë Carpenter | Originally Published at The Nation. May 9, 2014 - 3:52 PM ET Between 2003 and 2008, a Minnesota charter school executive named Joel Pourier embezzled more than $1.3 million from his school, the Oh Day Aki Charter School. While students [...]
By Laura S. Washington | Chicago Sun Times. May 3, 2014 5:48PM It’s Rahm Emanuel’s hot mess. Crime is out of control, the summer is close at hand. The mayor faces heated discontent from unions, education activists and parents, particularly black folks. A year ago, Emanuel and [...]
