New Orleans A+ Arkansas, initiated by the Thea Foundation and its director, Paul Leopoulos, may be proving that there are some real tools for improving public schools, the educational grasp and performance of students, regardless of race and income, and salvage the careers and idealism of teachers while doing so. How do they pull off …
Month: January 2013
Silent Victory over Comcast at FCC on Blocking Low-Income Access to Internet
New Orleans Local 100, United Labor Unions, turned in scores of complaints from our members in Houston and Little Rock as did Action United in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh over the obstacles Comcast put in the way of lower income families attempting to gain access to the internet and inexpensive computers. We endured meeting after meeting …
Some Affordability Finally Coming to Mortgage Lending but Is Fraud Protection Enough?
New Orleans The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its outline of new mortgage lending rules that will take effect in 2014. The new rules are interesting, though in some ways not reassuring. After years of arguing with big banks and subprime houses that “affordability” had to be the key test regardless of all …