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- The US Department of Education Should not be Eliminated. Still, it must be reformed.
- There are two men running for president, but only one choice.
- Billionaires, like the (labor union hating WalMart) Walton Foundation are creating their OWN unions to support publicly funded, private sector, secretive, for profit, autocratic, often cheating, Charter Schools with a goal to destroy public school teachers' unions and OUR (all the people) transparent, democratic, K-12 Public Schools. I think they want to control what OUR children learn or don't learn.
- When I say "OUR," I'm referring to more than 300,000,000 people that live in the United States. Our public schools need OUR help to stop the Destruction Of Public Education Syndicate (DOPES)destroying one of our country's greatest public resources, OUR public schools. The DOPES, supported mostly by billionaires (there are only a few hundred of them), has been at it for decades, and those lying bullies are not going away.
- A voice of reason combating the war to destroy OUR public schools
- More about the political WAR to destroy Public Education in the U.S.
- Introducing my NEW website and Writer's blog
- "Federal law requires some kind of accountability measure before graduation whether it be a standardized test or something else. Why can’t the state simply use classroom grades for this measure?"
- The Deceptive Politics and LIES behind School Choice - fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
- Who benefits when the public schools are privatized for profit? It isn't the working class.
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