New Orleans Everywhere around the country, charter schools and their operators are poking through the concrete of school yards like weeds. Billionaires and beleaguered Mayors and school superintendents often herald their potential as a way out of their own gnarled path of over grown capacity and underfunded programs. Huge fights in Philadelphia and now Chicago are …
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Stop the Guerrilla War Against Obamacare, Let My People Live!
Little Rock Being a commuter these days between New Orleans and Little Rock, it is interesting to watch the convolutions that Arkansas and its legislature are going through to try and fashion a partnership with the federal government to run the health care exchange option under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aka Obamacare. Time is ticking …
The Future is Now for Charter-man Barr to Apologize for McDonogh Oprah TV Exploitation
New Orleans I am a veteran (victim?) of four years of high school Latin during my time in the New Orleans public school system. One of Dr. Romeo’s classic often repeated quotations that is imprinted forever in my mind was his argument that he was not in loco parentis, meaning in his argument that he was …