by Jake Jacobs | Aug 8, 2018 | Blog
On a recent trip to New York City, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visited two schools—not the public schools her agency is charged with overseeing, but two Orthodox Jewish yeshivas. Photo credit: Shutterstock / cc DeVos used the opportunity to advocate for...
by Tim Wilkins | Aug 7, 2018 | Blog
All across America, residents of rural communities and small towns are stepping up to stand in solidarity with immigrant families and refuse the intimidation and fear the Trump administration wants to use to keep them apart. “It’s really concerning that in America, we...
by Jeff Bryant | Aug 4, 2018 | Blog
Remember when Democrats, at the urging of their progressive base, defeated an attempt to privatize Social Security by President George W. Bush in 2005? As Bush barnstormed the country to sell his plan to let workers place a portion of their payroll taxes in personal...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 3, 2018 | Blog
The House Democratic leadership's obsession with asserting a “centrist” – that is, fiscally conservative - fiscal ideology threatens to put the party at odds with its base. It endangers the party’s chances of retaking the House, and will make it difficult for...
by Ashana Bigard | Aug 2, 2018 | Blog
Ashana Bigard speaks on a panel about New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina at NetRoots Nation in New Orleans on Thursday, August 2 at 10:30 a.m. OurFuture education columnist Jeff Bryant moderates this panel, and leads one on 2018's teacher uprisings on Friday,...
by Andy Spears | Aug 2, 2018 | Blog
Thursday, August 2, 2018 is Primary Election Day in Tennessee. To find out when and where to vote, click here. Tennessee is a national leader – in a race to the bottom. We lead the nation in hospital closures per capita. We have more people working for the minimum...
