Billy Townsend: DeSantis Lost Polk County School Board
Sarasota, where DeSantis candidates won the school board, is a very conservative district. Polk County went for Trump in the past; 52% of its voters are Republicans. But Ron DeSantis’ conservative...
View ArticleMom in Texas Shuts Down Extremists and Joins the Honor Roll
The superintendent of schools in Granbury, Texas, made clear that he didn’t want any books about LGBT characters or LGBT issues in the school library. He agreed with the angry conservatives who showed...
View ArticleDana Milbank: Call MAGA Extremists What They Are: Fascists
Dana Milbank is my favorite columnist in the Washington Post. He is outspoken and documents what he says. I am always informed by reading his work. This is a good one. He writes: President Biden on...
View ArticleTexas: Conservative Activists Attack Social Studies Standards for CRT and...
Conservative activists in Texas are ready to fight for changes in the social studies standards because they smell “critical race theory” (I.e., any reference to racism in the past or present), and...
View ArticleTom Ultican: The Best Book of the Year: How Democrats Abandoned Public Schools
Tom Ultican is one of the very best chroniclers of the “Destroy Public Education” movement. He was thrilled to discover a new book that explains the origins of the attack on public schools and calls...
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John Merrow: Don’t Read Banned Books and Don’t Vote!
John Merrow’s title is sarcastic. Of course he wants you to read banned books, and he is deeply concerned about the large number of eligible voters—especially young people—who don’t bother to vote....
View ArticleHeather Cox Richardson Remembers When Republicans Fought for Public Schools
Historian Heather Cox Richardson reminds us of a time long ago when Republicans were champions of public schools. long, long ago. On August 21, 1831, enslaved American Nat Turner led about 70 of his...
View ArticleU.S. Department of Education Invites Astroturf “Parent” Groups to Join...
Maurice Cunningham, a retired professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, is a specialist on the subject of Dark Money. That’s money given to a group or campaign where the...
View ArticlePeter Greene: Why Can’t the “Reform Industry” Clean Up Their Failures?
Peter Greene writes here about Michael Petrilli’s reflections on the evolution of the “reform” movement. Now that the “reform” movement has merged with Christian nationalists, book banners, Proud...
View ArticleWill Texas Allow Schools to Post “In God We Trust” in Arabic?
Texas passed a law requiring schools to post signs saying “In God We Trust” in schools. A prankster in Florida is raising money to donate these signs to Texas schools/-but in Arabic. Will these signs...
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