by Erik Kain on September 29, 2011
The charter school movement began as a grassroots attempt to improve public education. It’s quickly becoming a backdoor for corporate profit. In Michigan, four out of five charter schools are run by for-profit EMO’s. Once upon a time, the charter school movement was a grassroots phenomenon. Its proponents wanted to create a system of experimentation [...]
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by Erik Kain on September 28, 2011
Teachers’ unions are often portrayed by their opponents as standing in the way of efforts to reform our schools. Maybe this isn’t such a bad thing. In Wisconsin in February of 2011, tens of thousands of protesters descended on the capital, Madison, to protest an extreme union-busting bill aimed at reducing the power of that state’s [...]
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