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I’ve been posting on the stupidity going down in Texas over its new curriculum standards for some time, and the madness now looks poised to go into overdrive. The genius behind this push to introduce conservatism into the social studies curriculum, Don McLeroy, has proven to be too crazy for even his evangelical base and [...]

As I’ve noted repeatedly, corporate charter school organizations are using their “public” mandates as investment tools that real estate speculators gobble up for obvious reasons.
Inland Public Properties Development Inc, a subsidiary of Inland American Real Estate Investment Trust Inc., has purchased seven charter schools for $61 million. The sales-leaseback deal includes schools managed by Imagine [...]

Schools Matter has the lowdown on Rylie Family Faith Inc.’s charter school mills that have been draining public coffers in Texas for the benefit of owners Don and Karen Belknap and their family. All of the elements are there: accounting fraud, nepotism, imaginary billing, etc. It’s quite a read… Welcome to the future of public [...]

If you need more evidence that current trends in corporate-driven education reform are little more than a farce wrapped in the rhetoric of educational equality, behold the Walton Family’s latest contribution to our fair nation!
The Detroit Public Schools have teamed up with Walmart Stores to provide job training and entry-level, afterschool jobs to students at [...]

I was going to dedicate today’s post to this blatant attempt by Tennessee House Replicants to open the door to the state’s university system to an even greater level of cronyism and corruption than we currently enjoy [please do call your representatives on this one], but then I came across this really good idea being [...]

As I’ve noted previously, the on-going disaster that is the Obama administration’s approach to education reform is little more than a policy push designed to create yet another conduit for the looting of public treasuries. Today’s example comes from the great state of Florida. Take a peek at how the state plans to spend its [...]

After Beck and doughy pantload served up their own particular view of ‘Liberal Fascism’ this past Friday night, real historians are [at last] pushing back against this tragic re-writing of history. For those who aren’t politically active, this may all appear to be much ado about nothing, however it is deadly serious. The only real [...]

Is the sound of public tax dollars financing the new hot thing in commercial real estate speculation. Kansas City Business Journal [h/t Schools Matter]
Entertainment Properties Trust has increased its investment in public charter schools by $48 million, the company said Friday.
The company (NYSE: EPR) purchased five new charter schools from Imagine Schools Inc. of Arlington, [...]

Beneath the veneer of the Republican Lite education policies being pursued by the Obama administration lies a stark reality that remains neatly out of sight from the gentle gaze of the Heartland. [aka. Places where middle class, white people live] The testing and accountability regimes that we are now constructing produce perverse incentives that push [...]