Tag: education
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A Layman’s Guide to the Destroy Public Education Movement
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The destroy public education (DPE) movement is the fruit of a relatively small group of billionaires. The movement is financed by several large non-profit organizations. Nearly all of the money spent is free of taxation. Without this spending, there would be no wide-spread public school privatization.
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School Choice is a Bamboozle a Hornswoggle a Flimflam
Two central ideologies behind school-choice are markets always make superior decisions and the cost of having local control of schools is poor outcomes. Both ideas are demonstrably untrue, but big money and power politics keep them alive. In 2017, a national survey showed a dramatic drop in support for charter schools. A related Chalkbeat article said, The survey,…
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Students to IDEM (Indiana Department of Environmental Management: Gary is Not a Dump, Our Education is More Important than a Dump
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Students in Gary, Indiana fight environmental racism, trying to stop a "solid waste processing facility" from being established within 100 feet of their school.