New Orleans There was a filler article in the local paper that one read in some desperation for a touch of news on a Thanksgiving morning. The upshot of the sympathetically written article reprinted from the Washington Post focused on how hard it was to find jobs “doing good” especially for young people committed …
Category: ACORN
Low-Income Ivy Sweepstakes
Washington Here’s another news flash. Seems some of your super-expensive ivy league and ivy league wannabe schools have realized that it is just too damned expensive for low (and moderate?) income students and their parents to have a shot at breaking the iron cage of social stratification in our country. Somehow a four year …
School Strategies
Chicago I am participating in quite an exceptional event, almost unheard of in the organizing community in fact: a joint strategy session between two community organizing networks — PICO and ACORN — trying to struggle together to find new paths and successes in education organizing. About a dozen organizers from each organization are attending. …