New Orleans Increasingly, we are going to ask which school district is going to be the last one to stand up for its children and workers and test for lead. There really is no rational reason in the face of the devastation that lead brings to children and others and the overwhelming evidence of its …
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More Lead Drama in Schools, but More Progress
New Orleans Why aren’t all school districts in the country simply crying “Uncle” and conceding that they will test all of their schools for lead in the water? They must know this is a tide coming towards them that they cannot resist. Yet, still we find foot dragging and, in some cases, the flimsiest of …
Best to Remember the South is a Violent Place
Grenoble As I mark the calendar closer to the finish on my euro-hella-road-trip, reading the news and seeing the videos on-line first from Dallas, where of course we have an office and members, and then over and over again from Baton Rouge last weekend and now more recently, where we also have a union hall …