A Southern California District Resists Bad Education Policy - Progressive.org

A Southern California District Resists Bad Education Policy - Progressive.org



An opinion.

DOLORES Official Theatrical Trailer

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How Budget Austerity Puts Public School Parents On Par With Criminals

How Budget Austerity Puts Public School Parents On Par With Criminals



Not California.

Manafort Was in Debt to Pro-Russia Interests, Cyprus Records Show - The New York Times

Manafort Was in Debt to Pro-Russia Interests, Cyprus Records Show - The New York Times

Stop Texas Style Immigration Crackdown: Make Calif...

antiracismdsa: Stop Texas Style Immigration Crackdown: Make Calif...: Dolores Huerta In the seven decades I’ve been fighting for social justice and human rights, I’ve never seen a year as scary as 2017. ...

Trump, Right-Wing Populism, and the Future of the Labour Movement

Bill Fletcher

Sacramento Then and Now

Sacramento Then and Now

NEA Joins Call for Moratorium on Charter Schools

Jeff Bryant, Educational Opportunity Network 

This week, the nation’s largest labor union, the National Education Association, broke from its cautious regard of charter schools to pass a new policy statement that declares charter schools are a “failed experiment” that has led to a “separate and unequal” sector of schools that are not subject to the same “safeguards and standards” of public schools.

To limit the further expansion of these schools, the NEA wants a moratorium on new charters that aren’t subject to democratic governance and aren’t supportive of the common good in local communities.

The NEA’s action echoes a resolution passed earlier this year by the national NAACP calling for a moratorium on the expansion of charters and for stronger oversight of these schools. These declarations also align with a policy statement issued last year by the Movement for Black Lives, a network Black Lives Matter organizers, calling for a moratorium on charter schools.

Now that labor and civil rights groups have come together in a unified call for a moratorium on these unregulated, privately-operated schools, prominent leaders in the Democratic party can champion this issue knowing they have a grassroots constituency that supports them.

Democrats in states where charters have been the most controversial – such as Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and California – should be especially interested in leading on this issue for a number of reasons.

Democrats know that success for their party relies on bringing labor and civil rights advocates together on key issues.

Tell No Lies

Defense of our democracy is essential.

On every one of his first 40 days in office, Trump made false statements in public. They ranged from assertions that 3 to 5 million people voted illegally, causing him to lose the popular vote, to claiming that the United States has a $17 billion trade deficit with Canada. (We had an $8.1 billion dollar trade surplus with Canada in 2016.)

The New York Times has compiled a list of his lies and provided fact checking sources.

This is a great service to the public.  I encourage you to read the list.

I, along with the Moyers Report think the Times should receive a Pulitzer Prize for this public service.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html?mi_u=20367268