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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".

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Supreme Court Ok’s Building A Separate and Unequal Educational System

Citizen Wealth Education Financial Justice National Politics April 23, 2014 by digital

New Orleans   There are now more than a dozen states that have banned the use of race as an affirmative action tool in determining admission to state funded colleges and universities.   The Supreme Court in reviewing a ban by voters in Michigan determined on a 6-2 vote that it was OK with them.  They went …

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Poor, Minority Schools Get the Worst Teachers

Citizen Wealth Education Financial Justice April 13, 2014 by digital

New Orleans    The Center for American Progress in Washington issued a report recently on the distribution of teachers within public schools which was deeply disturbing, even if not surprising.   At the bottom line they found that public schools in high poverty areas were three times as likely to have teachers ranked as ineffective, and in public …

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Charter School Like Takeovers in English “Academy” Movement

Citizen Wealth Education February 19, 2014 by digital

London   In an oft-handed conversation with the equivalent of a high school civics teacher, I got a quick course in so-called English school reform which was every bit as scary as the charter school movement in the United States though different in some interesting ways as well.   The bottom line is that over the last …

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