Feds Awarded Colorado Charter Schools $46 Million because of "Hiring and Firing" Rules
The U.S. Department of Education awarded Colorado $46 million under the Charter Schools Program partly because charters can fire teachers at will, documents show.
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Divide-and-Conquer Walker Thinks Equal Pay Is Divisive
Scott Walker is taking heat for claiming that supporting equal pay for women "pit[s] one group of Americans versus another." In Jamelle Bouie's view, "If any candidate could run a rigid campaign of polarization—aimed at winning as many white voters as possible—it’s Walker."
Scott Walker Whistles Dixie
It is a sad spectacle to see WI Governor Scott Walker taking money from the president of the "Council of Conservative Citizens,” a white supremacist group that grew out of the White Citizens Councils and is credited with radicalizing the man who massacred nine parishioners in the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC.
Unprecedented School Voucher Expansion Planned
At a time when other states are reinvesting in public education, Wisconsin continues to slash and burn. The Wisconsin Budget Project says that the state is now spending $1,014 less per public school student than it did in 2008 and more funds are slated to be siphoned off as Governor Scott Walker's budget proposes an unprecedented voucher expansion...
WageCrushers.org Tracks the Groups against Family-Supporting Jobs
The Center for Media and Democracy, publisher of PRWatch.org and the award-winning ALECexposed.org, has created a new web resource devoted to exposing the corporations, trade associations, "think tanks," and front groups working against the creation of family-supporting jobs.
Charter Program Expansion Looms Despite Probes into Mismanagement and Closed Schools
As Congress stands poised to increase the funding for charter schools, CMD has uncovered that there are federal investigations underway into closed schools and suspected waste and mismanagement.
House Democrats Take the Moral High Ground on Trade
When the choice came down to stopping more job-killing trade agreements or putting a bit of change aside for displaced workers, Democrats took a stand.
Labor, Farm, Green Groups Oppose Fast Track, But Obama's Got ALEC on His Side
Paul Ryan has been working feverishly this week to secure support for Trade Promotional Authority, under which Congress would grant to President Obama so-called “fast-track” authority.
Walker's Wisconsin, a "Laboratory for Oligarchs"
Scott Walker's attacks on unions and family-supporting jobs in Wisconsin helped elevate his national profile and ingratiated him with deep-pocketed political donors like the Kochs. Can he take this agenda nationwide?
There Is No Budget Surplus in Wisconsin
Scott Walker is telling the world he has a budget surplus. What he has is a $2.2 billion deficit and a big problem.
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