New Grants Announced: ED Continues to Pour Millions into Charter School Black Hole
U.S. Department of Education continues to bankroll charter schools nationwide with taxpayer dollars.
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Secret Donors, Secret Agendas: Guardian Pulls Back the Curtain on Walker Corruption Probe
A $750,000 campaign contribution from lead pigment manufacturer Harold Simmons resulted in a law change that benefitted his company and harmed Wisconsin's children.
What Rightwing Media Gets Wrong about the Reagan and Bush Immigration Orders
The rightwing is trying--and failing--to persuade the public that Republican uses of executive authority on immigration were different than Obama's. Here's what the right gets wrong.
Should Obama Use Executive Action on Immigration? Ask Ronald Reagan
What the Heritage Foundation gets wrong about Reagan's and Obama's executive orders.
FBI Tracks Charter Schools
There’s been a flood of local news stories in recent months about FBI raids on charter schools all over the country.
Profiting from the Poor: Outsourcing Social Services Puts Most Vulnerable at Risk
In a story most in the media missed, protestors gathered under the dome at the Mississippi state capitol earlier this year to oppose a bill that would allow the state Department of Human Services (DHS) to privatize everything from child protective services to nutrition programs for the elderly.
ALECexposed: George Zimmerman's Criminal History Includes Alleged Violence and Temper (Audio and New Documents)
George Zimmerman -- the Florida man who shot teenager Trayvon Martin to death -- has landed in the news again, after a panicked 9-1-1 call Monday from Shellie Zimmerman in which she told a police dispatcher she was "really scared" because her husband had threatened "that he's going to shoot us."
"Pandora's Lunchbox" -- Ingredients in Processed Food Products May Surprise You
"The vitamin D in your milk ... is almost surely a derivative -- after many chemical stages -- from lanolin from Australian sheep wool, concocted in a factory in China. ... Vitamin A, is often synthesized from acetone, a principal ingredient in nail polish remover," notes George Kenney based on his interview with Melanie Warner, a former writer for the New York Times.
Wisconsin Budget Includes $1 Million Taxpayer Giveaway for Well-Funded Teach for America
Wisconsin's 2013-2015 biennial budget sits on Governor Walker's desk awaiting his signature. Included in the budget is a provision allocating $1 million in taxpayer funds over the next two years to the controversial education organization Teach for America.
New Report Exposes Bradley Foundation Funding Behind “Massive” Campaign to Promote School Privatization
In a new report, entitled "P is for Payoff: Inside the Bradley Foundation's Campaign to Privatize Education in Wisconsin," the non-profit activist group One Wisconsin Now has detailed the Bradley Foundation's funding of a coordinated campaign to promote school privatization in Wisconsin and across the nation.
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