WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Marble Falls A headline in the news said that the great state of Texas was moving to allocate $1-billion to a voucher program there. One red state after another has tried to skim dollars away from public education support to support private education, largely through church-based schools or pick-up places, based on a …
Santa Marta, Columbia It turns out that it’s not easy, according to some claims, even in this time of great inequity to manufacture elites, even in super selective universities and the vaunted Ivy League colleges based in the United States. There’s no question that the glide path to the elite, if you’re rich or …
New Orleans Integration is hardly one of those fights that is won and done. Living in the South especially, no one is that surprised when they read that cases filed in the 50s and 60s have continued to bounce back and forth in various courts as school districts continue to try and prove …