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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".

Category: Education

No Account and No Accountability Charter Schools

Education Louisiana Recovery Rebuild New Orleans July 22, 2011 by wade

New aOrleans Few do not know that New Orleans schools are “ground zero” in the so-called “reform” movement to privatize public school systems with charter schools.  With the excuse of Hurricane Katrina the State of Louisiana, which had never run a school (never, ever!) in a wink-and-nod deal took a $20 million federal carrot to …

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Access to Higher Ed for Lower Income and Working Students

Education June 8, 2011 by wade

New Orleans Props to David Leonhardt, the Times financial columnist, and Louis Menard, the oft published New Yorker critic at large for raising the issue of both opportunity, access, and value for higher education for the masses.  Leonhardt did so in a recent column about the job shift of the former president of Amherst who …

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The Gates Foundation is Pimping Educational “Reform”

Education Ideas and Issues Philanthropy May 24, 2011May 24, 2011 by wade

New Orleans Reading back newspapers on my return from Honduras as always are an education.   Seems to be some rich fellows out there in business and politics who think that they have a “do anything I want” card that will let them out of every jam in life.  They almost seem surprised that regular people …

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Interview with NPR Gulf States Newsroom

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