He does a masterful job of toggling between the local story of Southlake and the big picture nationally in the right’s war on public education.
Taxpayers are funding asset hoards, property purchases, advertising, and gift cards for cyber charters. What this money is not funding is quality education.
Rep. David Zimmerman’s bill is the latest carefully spun attempt to inject a right-wing brand of Christianity into schools in hopes of bringing more children to Jesus. It has already happened in Texas and Florida.
Christian Right culture warriors are doing “a better job at being clever as serpents” in their war on public education.
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania School Directors Coalition founder Christina Brussalis is tight-lipped about who’s funding the organization, who’s on the board, and whether they are working with the Independence Law Center.
PA remains a state of wide educational contrasts between wealthy and poor, rural and urban, and large and small school districts, as well as the contrast between those that welcome and support diversity and others that are repressive and discriminatory.
The law firm has quietly helped districts draft policies for banning books, discriminating against LGBTQ students, and promoting reactionary Christian values.
Yet the Shapiro administration approves one anyway.
If the right-wing Supreme Court majority gives Oklahoma the green light to open the nation’s first religious public charter school, the already crumbling wall separating Church and State will have a gaping hole in it.
The program has shielded more than half a million people from deportation who entered the United States as children. The ruling will likely be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Lawmakers signal some room for agreement on expanded voter ID rules and revised mail ballot procedures.
Despite Chester’s success, the conclusions drawn by HUD lack merit.
As activists double down on the disruptive tactics of recent campaigns, the movement’s leaders see opportunities to broaden its base to include people concerned about pocketbook issues like jobs and the cost of housing.
The Philadelphia lawmaker said Democrats ‘can’t exist as a foil to somebody else’ for the next four years.
