New Orleans The teaching and testing travesty in Atlanta has been a bitter indictment of almost everything that is off the rails in the US educational system. When mandatory testing becomes the only measurement of teaching and educational standards, and the testing itself is seen as biased, unfair, and unjust, the temptation for administrators …
Narrow Networks Prove Price, not Choice, Rules Healthcare Decisions
New Orleans It’s becoming increasingly obvious that deep down without being willing to admit it, Americans are voting with their feet on the issue of health care and the tally is showing that their real preference would probably be the British National Health Service. Now, there’s no likelihood of that happening of course but narrow …
Public Subsidies of Low Wages
New Orleans The Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California has released a report looking at many federal and state subsidies directed at relief for lower income Americans. All good. What they found though is that a huge percentage of this kind of support is not in Republican ideological terms, …