by Jeff Bryant | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog
Ralph Northam's big win for the Democratic party in the Virginia governor's election is being hailed as a "rebuke of President Trump." But it's also a rebuke of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. The race, which was called a "bellwether" and a "must win" for Democrats,...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog
There's a lot that's bad in the tax scheme Republicans are cooking up on Capitol Hill right now, but one particularly odious ingredient is a proposal to eliminate the deduction for state and local taxes (SALT) which could end up undercutting funding for education,...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 1, 2017 | Blog
"Here we go again," was what many left-leaning folks likely felt after seeing a recent announcement about a new effort by wealthy donors to rescue the Democratic Party from its electoral doldrums. Backed by $20 million, the "New Blue" campaign, coming from politically...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 27, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump swept into office on a platform that included support for charter schools and other alternatives to public schools, and his Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, an ardent supporter of "school choice" in all its forms, recently announced her...
by Jeff Bryant | Oct 19, 2017 | Blog
A favorite talking point of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is to say that conversations about education should not be about "systems and buildings" but about "individual students." It's a skillfully crafted soundbite designed to cast schools as oppressive...
