We’ve talked at length on this site, over the past several years, about the coordinated campaign to dismantle public education in the United States. Sadly, Michigan is often at the forefront of this national conservative movement. Images of pregnant teenage girls being arrested as they try to keep their schools from closing and boys picketing […]
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The apparent end of public education as we know it in Philadelphia
Posted in Civil Liberties, Education, Politics Also tagged Al Sharpton, Bill Gates, Bush tax cuts, Catherine Ferguson Academy for Young Women, charter schools, education reform, Frederick Douglass Academy, Gates Foundation, Good Morning America is crap, Grover Norquist, Philadelphia, public education, starve the beast, Thomas Knudsen, wealth inequality 38 Comments