Issue: 661

Commentary

The Corporate Cartel Attack on North Carolina’s Public Education – Connecting the Dots – The Farrell Report Defending Public Education

By Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H. bc Columnist

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A major component of the Cartel’s Achievement District strategy is the utilization of prominent community leaders and elected officials of color to make the case for this “backdoor corporate takeover of public schools” in their respective communities.

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New Jersey Updates: Ms. Rose Cali, a major benefactor of Montclair Kids First (MKF), the corporate education reform group established to counter Montclair Cares About Schools’…

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Commentary

Democratic National Committee Gets Advice From 60 Black Democratic Pols; Question Is: What Were They Thinking?

By John Funiciello bc Columnist

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the Democratic Party for too long has not “take(n) seriously the humanity of the Palestinian brothers and sisters.” After a half-century, in which government after government in the U.S. and the U.K. have failed to achieve any settlement of the conflict, which has effectively cut off hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and lands. They have been refugees in their own land for the past three generations.

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Once again, the “Palestinian question” arises in the highest level of U.S. politics, namely in one of the two major parties, this time from black Democrats,…

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Firewalk

By Chuck Siler

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