New Orleans In the time of tight public budgets at every level in the uneven recovery from the recession, especially in distressed communities, little is more contentious than the funding formula and the allocation of scarce resources in public schools. There may be few areas in the country where the issue is more weighted than …
Category: Ideas and Issues
The Painful Tragedy of the Digital Divide
Little Rock For more almost 25 years, Local 100 United Labor Unions has represented school support workers mostly in Texas and Louisiana from Head Start to high school from teachers to bus drivers to cafeteria workers and janitors. Most of our work is concentrated in the cities now, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and …
Science Discovers Sexual Harassment and Abuse
New Orleans Reading a couple of fascinating books last summer on my wor-cation in Montana by geologist and history of science author, Naomi Oreskes, I was struck by her indirect arguments far from the main theses of her books that to keep up with science I had to treat it like “news” with its own …