New Orleans A federal judge in Louisiana took a hard shot to the gut to the conservative efforts to provide public money to help some parents pay for their children to escape public schools. He called it what it was: an effort to re-segregate the school system. The basis of the decision was equally clear. …
Category: Education
Doonesbury Explains Dinosaur Extinction for Louisianans
New Orleans I don’t read the comics or the funny papers. No big thing, just one of those things where you make a personal decision about time and choose the box scores rather than the talking balloons. But science and politics are still important and when facts confront the popularity and prejudice of people, it’s …
Shifting Political Values: Public Schooled and American Made
Toronto In American public and political life there used to be some clear tests that determined whether you were “one of us” or “one of them,” whether you were progressive or conservative, stood with the people or stood with special interests. These markers were so stark and clear that a generation ago it would have …