by Jeff Bryant | Apr 21, 2015 | Blog, Education
Politicians from across the political spectrum have made public schools and schoolteachers the favored whipping post of the day. In blue state New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has vowed to “bust up” public education “monopolies” and has bullied through new laws that...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 20, 2015 | Blog, Education
Confirming what a recent reporter for Reuters claimed, “the ‘do-nothing’ US Congress may actually be starting to do things.” The report hails passage of “bipartisan initiatives” such as the fix to physician reimbursement in Medicare and the demand that Congress have a...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 9, 2015 | Blog, Education, Populism2015, Progressive Vision
Is there really "a populist energy building in America, and beginning to drive the debate in the Democratic Party," as my colleague Robert Borosage recently wrote? If your inclination is to answer that question, "Yes," the evidence you're most apt to cite is the...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 2, 2015 | Blog, Education
Does populist outrage matter anymore? Anyone following the growing resistance to unpopular standardized testing in the nation's public schools may soon see. Thousands of teachers, parents, students, and public school advocates poured into the streets of New York City...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 2, 2015 | Blog, Education
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah Cummings, who co-chair an initiative called the Middle Class Prosperity Project, are holding a forum today at the University of Massachusetts in Boston on Tackling the Student Debt Crisis (more info here). If the word “crisis”...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 1, 2015 | Blog, Education
To the old saying about “death and taxes,” you can now add another: debt. In fact, in contemporary America, debt is likely becoming at least as all-encompassing as the other two. An increasingly powerful force behind the debt explosion is not what you might expect:...
