by David Safier You'd think if you sent your child to the private Riverdale Country School in the Bronx to the tune of $38,800 a year, that would be all the top flight education your child would need. But you would be wrong. According to today's NY Times story, you could be spending as much … Read more
by David Safier Here's the basic story: TUSD Assistant Superintendent Lupita Cavazos-Garcia formally reprimanded MAS Director Sean Arce for canceling an awards ceremony for Mexican-American students. Arce wrote a formal response to the reprimand through his lawyer. Cavazos-Garcia then made the reprimand official. I read Cavazos-Garcia's reprimand and Arce's response. From my vantage point as … Read more
by David Safier Tom Horne is doing whatever he can to prevent the voter approved medical marijuana initiative from happening. But he refuses to join with other states to investigate for-profit colleges, which lie to students and saddle them with huge loans while making their millions from the government. I've posted about this scam before. … Read more
by David Safier Have you wondered why hedge funds and other big money investors have partnered with corporation-based philanthropies to throw money and publicity behind charter schools and other education privatization ideas? Best answer: profits. Here's one of the ways it works in the world of charter schools. Private money builds a charter school, then … Read more
by David Safier I didn't attend the press conferences held by Pedicone and faculty/plaintiffs from the MAS program Thursday, so I'm depending on reports from the Star, KGUN and the Capitol Times for my information. The message from the MAS press conference is clear: Pedicone deserves an "F" grade as superintendent, and he should resign. … Read more