5 Ideas that Really Matter But FOX Won't Address Them in the Presidential Debate
Pundits have wasted hours guessing which ten of the 17 White House contestants FOX would choose for its version of Donald Trump's Miss USA....
Education
ALEC Admits School Vouchers Are for Kids in Suburbia
ALEC has decided to drop the pretense: school vouchers are not about helping poor, at-risk or minority kids.
Nearly 2,500 Bridges to Nowhere: Congress Considers Expanding Charter Program Despite Millions Wasted on Closed Schools
Nearly 2,500 charter schools have been forced to shutter in recent years. Some of these received federal grant money without even opening.
Feds Awarded Colorado Charter Schools $46 Million because of "Hiring and Firing" Rules
The U.S. Department of Education awarded Colorado $46 million under the Charter Schools Program partly because charters can fire teachers at will, documents show.
Unprecedented School Voucher Expansion Planned
At a time when other states are reinvesting in public education, Wisconsin continues to slash and burn. The Wisconsin Budget Project says that the state is now spending $1,014 less per public school student than it did in 2008 and more funds are slated to be siphoned off as Governor Scott Walker's budget proposes an unprecedented voucher expansion...
Charter Program Expansion Looms Despite Probes into Mismanagement and Closed Schools
As Congress stands poised to increase the funding for charter schools, CMD has uncovered that there are federal investigations underway into closed schools and suspected waste and mismanagement.
Charter Industry Strong-Arms Public Officials; $3.3 Billion Spent (Part 5)
The U.S. Department of Education has pledged to tighten controls of its quarter-billion-dollar-a-year charter schools program—a program repeatedly criticized by the Office of the Inspector General.
ALEC Wants to Educate High Schoolers on Balanced Budgets and Austerity
ALEC wants state legislators to require kids to be taught its twisted brand of history, which claims that our "founding principles" require balanced budgets and that government's primary purpose is to protect private property from theft.
Accountability? How Overseers Let Charters off the Hook; $3.3 Billion Spent (Part 4)
If the evaluation of charter school applications is deeply flawed, the oversight of the $3.3 billion disbursed by the federal government to expand charter schools is not much better.
In Search for Truth, CMD Files Public Records Lawsuit against Scott Walker
CMD has filed a lawsuit against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker for unlawfully withholding public records about his office’s deletion of the University of Wisconsin's mission statement.
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