Issue: 718

November 16, 2017

Commentary

Whose School Choice in the Era of Assignments to Charter Schools?

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

the Cartel’s most recent success has derived from its funding of state legislators to create a feeder system for corporate charter schools. Laws have been passed that establish so-called Achievement, Innovation, Renaissance, etc. districts in several states.

School Choice is the mantra for public education advanced by the Cartel of corporate education reformers. Since the1990s, it has been purported to be the elixir…

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Commentary

U.S. Is Post-Racial? What?

By John Funiciello Columnist

Not all of it can be attributed to a Donald Trump presidency, even though he has proven to be a racist, a misogynist, an Islamaphobe, a bully, and a friend to white supremacists. He certainly has unleashed the dogs of division, but what we are seeing right now has been around for a long time. Trump is not the cause of the national toxin, but he is the symptom.

Just because Barack Obama was elected president and then re-elected the hopeful among us celebrated by noting that the U.S. could be considered post-racial. Say what?…

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