by Jeff Bryant | Jun 1, 2017 | Blog
This week's disturbing news that Oklahoma schools are so poorly funded some of them may move from five days a week to four got a lot of people's attention, including my colleague Richard Eskow, who called this an example of "the Republican party's sickness of the...
by Jeff Bryant | May 30, 2017 | Blog
You and I witnessed history last week, and not the good kind. At a House subcommittee hearing In Washington, DC, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was called to defend to Congress the Trump administration’s education budget which cuts education options for poor...
by Jeff Bryant | May 23, 2017 | Blog
Betsy DeVos wants to give your tax dollars to private schools and businesses and tell you it's an education "transformation." That's the main theme of an address she gave this week to a conference held by the organization she helped found and lead, the American...
by Jeff Bryant | May 23, 2017 | Blog
Joe Padilla and Egle Malinauskaite are part of a small group marching 200 miles from Chicago to the Illinois State Legislature in Springfield bringing a "People & Planet First Budget" to their lawmakers. “We're in a narrative battle to change education from a...
by Jeff Bryant | May 19, 2017 | Blog
The vision of "education reform" coming from the Trump administration and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos entails cutting direct aid to students, especially those from low-income families, in order to expand the private sector's financial footprint in education....
