Choosing Democracy

A discussion of major issues facing our democracy with an emphasis on public schooling.

Friday, July 01, 2011

How U.S. corporations avoid taxes

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Some of the nation’s largest corporations have amassed vast profits outside the country and are pressing Congress and the Obama administr...

School notes

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important column by Ravitch : http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/2011/06/reasons_for_hope.html "For the past year, t...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Legislature and budget put CSU at risk

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Faculty Say Budget Cuts Put Quality of Education in Peril   Essential Skills May be Jeopardized by Rapidly Deteriorating Situation LOS ANG...

This is a tough budget; CBP

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The California Budget Project, a nonpartisan public policy research group, released the following statement from Executive Director Jean R...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The Republicans won the California Budget battle today

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The Republican minority won the California budget battle. California is a Democratic controlled state; in the Senate there are 25 Democra...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Budget Deficit Hysteria

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Currently the Republicans are preventing an extension of the national debt limit.  They demand deep budget cuts first.  In refusing to exten...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

CORNEL WEST - OBAMA IS FOR BIG BUSINESS AIG GOLDMAN SACHS BP FANNIE MAE ...

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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Please test us too

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S. Krashen The US Department of Education is planning the most massive and expensive testing program ever seen on the planet, far exceedin...

New York: Budget agreement prevents teacher lay offs

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Budget deal removes teacher layoff threat JUNE 24, 2011 An agreement reached by New York City and the UFT will ensure that no New York City ...
Friday, June 24, 2011

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  Paul Karrer,                              How Did We Get Here?  The public has gone from venerating teachers to vilifying them  . How did...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

The Big Lie must be exposed

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  The big lie must be exposed.  The lie the rightwing has been perpetrating for nearly a generation. The lie that now almost all politician...
Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Our Schools are not broken; the problem is poverty

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Commencement Speech: Stephen Krashen Delivered at Lewis and Clark College, June 5, 2011 Our schools are not broken: the problem is poverty...

How Obama could Revive Hopes for Change

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By   Randy Shaw Beyond Chron In 2008, young people and longtime non-voters set cynicism aside to mount a national grassroots campaign t...
Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Texas Teachers Protest massive cuts

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From: Huffington Post. Joy Resmovits As Texas lawmakers prepare to cut billions in education funding and give school districts a heavier ha...

California Public Schools experience deep cuts

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From: The California Budget Project.  June 7,2011.   In response to sizeable budget shortfalls, lawmakers have repeatedly cut state spendin...

10 years of Bush Tax Cuts- the Results

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http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/06/07/not-a-happy-anniversary-10-years-of-bush-tax-cuts/
Monday, June 06, 2011

Republican policies lead to the second Great Depression

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by Dean Baker When the financial system was on the edge of melting down back in the fall of 2008, there was much talk in the punditocracy of...
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Saturday, June 04, 2011

Krashen on Diane Ravitch and School Miracles

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A comment on Ravitch's NY Times article: School Miracles, Slow Learners and Access to Books- by Steven Krashen First-class investigativ...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

Obama, Progressives, and the White Nationalist Backlash


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Bill Fletcher, Jr.  Task for progressives in 2012:
Monkey-wrenching the white united front
 
It has been striking that many progressives h...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Rhee's group contributes to anti union efforts in Ohio

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The spokesperson for Michelle Rhee's "Students First" organization would have you know it's not that Rhee and Students Fi...
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