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The word “public” is the target of our enemies
Yesterday Timothy Egan wrote a column in the New York Times about how the Trump administration is destroying our government from the inside. Egan is spending time camping in Montana, and is especially outraged over the damage being done within … Continue reading
Posted in Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy, political campaigns, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, Trumpism
Tagged Brown v Topeka, Civil War, Democracy in Chains, Ken Cuccinelli, Koch Bros, Nancy MacLean, private property, public parks, public schools, public utilities, the Onion, Timothy Egan, Trump administration, William Perry Pendley
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Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy: Destroying labor unions
From Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains: If the nation’s health, schools, and prisons, and the world’s climate, are at a watershed moment, so, too, is the U.S. labor force. A large body of research by economists and political scientists over … Continue reading
Posted in Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy, Politics, The Facts of Life, The War On Workers
Tagged Democracy in Chains, labor unions, libertarianism, Nancy MacLean, public schools, public service unions, Scott Walker, teachers unions, United Auto Workers
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Good news for public schools
I read David L. Kirp’s opinion piece, “The Community School Comes of Age,” in today’s New York Times with my mouth dropping open and my heart beating faster. Because I’d never heard of community schools, never heard that New York … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged AFT, Betsy DeVos, community schools, Eve Moskowitz, public schools, Success Acadmies, the Island School, UFT, union teachers
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