Back in July of 2010, I reported on the New Jersey Teacher's Village taht would combine zoning for three charter schools and corporate labor houses  for corporate teachers. Well, the plan came to fruition and the big sponsors, along with Chris Cristie, who you would expect to pass the begging bowl to corporations is Mayor of Newark, NJ, Corey Booker.  Booker, like Rubio has become the darling of the reactio ...

From Larry Miller’s blog: Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students! May 21, 2012 Milwaukee’s Education Privatization Explained: What’s the Difference Between Public Schools, Voucher Schools and Charter Schools? What’s the Difference? Voucher schools, Charter schools, Milwaukee Public Schools Published in May 2012 by the non-partisan Democracy and Education Research Group. Email: democracy.education.milwauk ...

Thursday May 24, 2012 at 11:15 AM there will be a General Assembly for the League of Student Workers at Santa Monica College.  I’ve been told the meeting is going to be pretty informal; the group is meeting to create a contact point for the Student Workers, introduce the committee members and present the annual report.  Student-workers are going to vote on whether or not they want to submit the report to th ...

Published on May 15, 2012 by     iamcompucomp In order to stay competitive with the Chinese, who are now using I.V. drips of amino acids to raise test scores, Arnie Duncan has launched the "Drip to the Top" for junior I.V. Leaguers. It's a wild ride in America on "goof balls" but with the population under the screws of the pharmaceutical industry and drugs, both legal and illegal, being doled out and taken ...

You can find it at: http://castudentunion.wordpress.com/ It became apparent at the May 12, 2012 SF meeting of students, faculty, citizens, and workers from the 112 Community Colleges in California in attendance that the need for a state-wide Student Union was a necessity now that the material conditions of capitalism have gone beyond neo-liberalism to actual the merger of corporate and state.  This now tran ...

One can only thank Cliff Kincaid, the Director of the AIM Center for his investigative journalism and he can be contacted at [email protected] for his fine reporting on the current state of the newspaper, the Washington Post.  On Thursday, May 10, 2012 The Washington Post Company held its annual meeting for stockholders.  According to Kincaid: “AIM was there because of our ownership of company stock, e ...

  If you are not familiar with the proposal coming out of the state government regarding privatizing and fianancializing community colleges in California please go to the website http://nosstf.blogspot.com and familiarize yourself with the issue.  One of the best fact sheets and analysis of the Orwellian named “Students Success Task Force” has been done by No SSTF at: http://nosstf.blogspot.com.  In a ...

I was reading the latest May 2012 issue of Harper’s Magazine, when I noticed on the infamous last page of the magazine under, “Findings”, the following finding: “Rich people are likelier to steal candy from children” (Harpers, May, 2012, Findings, pp.80). I thought about it for awhile and it made sense.  In fact, childhood itself has been stolen.  The rich who run corporate America and indeed the corporate ...

Benito Mussolini on the cover of Time Magazine Premier Mussolini knows what they are being trained for.  He, at least, is frank enough to speak out. Only the other day, Il Duce in "International Conciliation," the publication of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said: "And above all, Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from politic ...

Snowe’s For-Profit Sponsors The Educational Management Corporation (EDMC) is the second Largest for-profit college chain in the United States. It owns and operates over 100 schools through its subsidiary branches: The Art Institutes, Argosy University, Brown Mackie College, and South University. John McKernan, former Governor of Maine and Senator Snowe's husband, is currently EDMC’s board of directors chair ...