Cathy Antunes: Dark Money in Florida Elections
Cathy Antunes is an education activist in Sarasota, Florida. When she ran for local office, she realized that the public doesn’t pay much attention to local elections. This creates a huge opportunity...
View ArticlePhiladelphia: Charter School Rigged Admissions by Zip Code
Privatizers have boasted for years that charter schools are superior to public schools because students should not be confined to schools by their zip code (I.e. their neighborhood). But a charter...
View ArticleProPublica: Justice Alito accepted Luxury Fishing Trip from Billionaire with...
ProPublica broke a story today about Justice Samuel Alito’s breach of ethics. Actually, the U.S. Supreme Court has no ethics code. Ethics codes are for the little people, to paraphrase businesswoman...
View ArticleMaureen Dowd: Trump Is a Sore Loser and a Fool
Maureen Dowd is a regular columnist for the New York Times. Here she reviews Trump’s ongoing coup. Dowd refers to Trump at the end of the article as an Amadán. Carol Burris, who is of Irish origin,...
View ArticleAdd Another Scandal to the GOP “Family Values” Facade
For decades, the GOP has claimed to be the party of “family values.” From what we have read recently about Governor Noem of South Dakota, who allegedly was romantically entangled with a Trump aide,...
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Gary Rubinstein: Will U.S. News Ban KIPP from Its Rankings Again, for Cheating?
Gary Rubinstein writes here about KIPP’s clever tactics to win a listing as one of the “best” high schools in New York State. He caught them playing similar games several years ago, and U.S. News...
View ArticleShani Robinson: I Was Convicted in Atlanta on RICO Charges. I Was Innocent.
Shani Robinson was one of the Atlanta teachers who was convicted during the Great Cheating Scandal of 2015. Almost ten years later, she and five others who refused to plead guilty are still free while...
View ArticleBilly Townsend on Chris Rufo’s Inflated Credentials
Billy Townsend is a Florida blogger who specializes in exposing grifters, especially in education. He calls his blog “Public Enemy #1.” He served on the Polk County school board and has been...
View ArticleCalifornia: Unions Complain That Arts Funding Is Misused
Howard Blume of the Los Angeles Times writes about union complaints that arts funding approved by voters is being misused. Blume writes: Powerful unions have joined forces with former Los Angeles...
View ArticleFrank G. Splitt Reviews Liz Cheney’s “Oath and Honor”
Frank G. Splitt is a regular reader of the blog and a retired engineer of great distinction. He sent me his Amazon review of Liz Cheney’s best-selling book about the Congressional hearings conducted...
View ArticleRick Wilson: The “Both-Sides” Argument is Dangerous
Rick Wilson, a Never-Trump Republican and a founder of The Lincoln Project, warns about the danger of normalizing Trump: I’m seeing a lot of traditional, DC “bothsides” reporting lately, arguing that...
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David Pepper: Democracy Wins in Missouri, for a Change
David Pepper describes a stunning victory for democracy in Missouri for outnumbered Democrats. Remember how the Republican-controlled Ohio legislature promoted a referendum called Issue 1 to require...
View ArticleThe Case of Shani Robinson, Wrongly Accused of Cheating in Atlanta, Is...
In 2009, Atlanta’s school superintendent, Dr. Beverly Hall, was honored by the American Association of School Administrators as National Superintendent of the Year for the city’s amazing progress in...
View ArticleArkansas Officials Disqualify Petition for Abortion Referendum
How naive some citizens of Arkansas were! They thought they could get a referendum on the state ballot to change the state’s draconian abortion ban which allows no exceptions for rape, incest or the...
View ArticleLottery Scams in Mass. and Texas: How to Beat the System, Win Millions, and...
Every once in a while, you read a story about a person winning the lottery twice or three times, and it seems amazing that anyone could be so lucky. But when the same person wins the lottery thousands...
View ArticleNetwork for Public Education Launches National Center on Charter School...
Having spent years covering charter scandals and seeking accountability for charters, the Network for Public Education realized that it could not compete with the high-powered corporate public...
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