Mumbai Vinod Shetty, ACORN India’s Director, and I had been meeting for hours along Juhu Road at the Sip ‘N Munch going through our work list of what needed to be done on campaigns around remittances, the Commonwealth Games, and multi-national food contractors and their labor law violations. We had discussed the great progress …
Tag: Education
The $100,000 Plus Head Start Teacher?
New Orleans I admit a hot headline on the front page of the New York Times about paying kindergarten teachers $320,000 per year absolutely caught my eye! The back story was straightforward. A huge study under Project Star in Tennessee tracked 12,000 children in that state. The study was trying to determine whether or not …
Democratic Accountability in School Boards
New Orleans In New Orleans we have seen the future of schools under a district-wide “choice” system and a charter school dominated program, and it is blatantly undemocratic and unaccountable. That’s bad news. Add to that the fact that the schools don’t perform better either by most measures, and we are talking about a school …