The now embattled organization has been working to destroy public ed for the past forty years. Here's what you need to know about how they're doing it.
The private funders and non-profit groups behind ed reform are getting political like never before -- using big money to pressure politicians to do their bidding for them.
Parent Trigger Laws allow parents to overhaul schools with a majority vote. But do these laws benefit the people? Or the corporate interests driving the privatization of public ed?
Though National School Choice Week has some liberal support, its primary backers are deeply conservative activists whose goal is to dissolve public education in the US.
Aurelia Fierros, Huffington Post. December 7, 2011.
In part of a move to transfer tactics from the "war on terror" to the "war on drugs", the Pentagon is paying private security firms millions to fight the drug war internationally.
Rather than upset the moneyed interests who bought their seats in office, politicians prefer to cut pensions, close schools, and most importantly, privatize, privatize, privatize!
Wisconsin’s union-busting governor has emerged the hero of the right-wing groups that are proposing extreme measures in the battle to privatize public education.
A new book, 'All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons,' asserts that protecting the commons can help save the environment, the economy and democracy.
Hannah Gurman, Foreign Policy in Focus. October 5, 2010.
Foreign direct investment exacerbates labor abuses. The only recourse for workers at foreign companies is the very state union that suppresses the right to organize.
It is crucial now that we use this opportunity to hold governments accountable to the international commitment to recognize water and sanitation as human rights.
Christine G.K. LaPado, Chico News and Review. February 3, 2010.
Crystal Geyser is seeking approval for a bottling plant on an industrial-zoned parcel that is bordered on three sides by bucolic agricultural-residential land.
