Victoria When the topic of the leadership conference is “Building the Links: Connecting Unions and Community,” and my 90-minute slot has the same title, it’s already a slow pitch to the plate looking for a big swing. After weeks of singing for my supper on the road with translators in Spanish, Japanese, or Korean, it was …
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Charter Schools Continue to Resist Accountability and Transparency
New Orleans New Orleans is widely considered the vanguard of the charter school movement. Since the usurpation of the school system by the state in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, charter schools of all shapes, sizes, and varieties have been the norm. It’s hard to tell in most ways how this grand experiment is working …
GOP Voter Registration Mischief
New Orleans To no one’s surprise the Republican’s in a full-on partisan voter registration effort run by the notorious Nathan Sproul have been caught pretty much red-handed changing the party designation on voter registration forms for potential voters in Florida and several other states. Sproul claims to have “registered 500,000 voters in 40 states” through …