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It is time for unions and teachers to take specific actions for their survival!
Within the past month, unions and teachers have experienced political ups and downs that may be precursors to the battles in the upcoming 2017 and 2018…
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In addition to the funding declines, public school teachers are being battered by the rapidly increasing number of charter and voucher schools which largely reject teacher unions, further eradicating teaching positions in public schools as individual schools’ budgets are reduced to pay for them.
The reduction of the nation’s public education teaching force is a silent tsunami that is insidious to K-12 education. Many of the warning signs are being…
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Both foundation groups and the wealthy elite are currently targeting pro-public education national organizations, school board members, and teachers to create a supportive educational environment in which the Trump-DeVos educational itinerary can thrive.
President Donald Trump and his Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, have presented the FY2018 budget for the U.S. Department of Education, cutting it by 13.6 percent, including…
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Trump’s situation is unlikely to improve, and the 2018 midterm elections are beginning to suggest the possibility of a wave election for Democrats in the House of Representatives and/or the Senate. If that occurs for either or both bodies, Republicans are most likely to begin abandoning him in droves.
In the past week, President Donald Trump has become increasingly under siege. Despite his attempts to change the subject with his first overseas trip as President,…
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These unprecedented realities provide an unforeseen occasion for public school teachers and supporters to push back aggressively against the state and federal governments and corporate agenda to privatize public education for profit.
President Donald Trump is on a downward spiral in his presidency as a function of his narcissism, arrogance, and his commitment to running the country as…
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The Trump Administration has already changed school lunches, for the worse, and has cut funding for after-school programs that have been of greatest assistance to poor children of color in the nation’s large and small urban centers. It is becoming apparent that Trump is not only bamboozling HBCU Presidents but that he is deceiving us all.
President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have bamboozled HBCU Presidents, AGAIN, after inviting them to the White House on February 27th to participate in…
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Trump’s ability to co-opt his erstwhile adversaries into working with and/or supporting him, such as HBCU and grassroots leaders, minority social justice organizations, and clergy has positioned him to oppress the citizens they allegedly represent.
The alumni, students, and my colleagues in the online Barbershop Discussion Group, are in an uproar over Bethune-Cookman University’s (B-CU), one of the nation’s historically black…
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Trump’s Wall Street education reform allies have been central to his war on public education. They were major contributors to his presidential campaign and are heavy investors in charter schools, charter management companies, education testing and publishing corporations, etc., where they have been realizing regular profits and hope to hit the jackpot with Trump’s privatization agenda for public education.
President Donald Trump has orchestrated a 100 day attack on public education. Of the numerous promises that he made during his presidential campaign, he is closest…
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the Cartel has systematically recruited a cross-section of ethnic minorities to serve as the faces of their various school choice initiatives. At the same time, it paid state- and federal-level politicians to significantly reduce funding for those public schools that the majority of minority children attend.
The stars have aligned for the corporate education reform Cartel whose members have promoted school choice—voucher and charter schools, education savings accounts, etc.— for more than…
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Now there are two highly aggrieved, Republican-appointed, archconservative members of the Court who feel they were unfairly demonized during their Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. Their anger will likely be expressed in upcoming decisions that “clap back” at the Democrats and their base on the progressive left.
Neil Gorsuch has been confirmed for the U.S. Supreme Court after the Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, invoked the nuclear option, getting the Republican-controlled Senate to…
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