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Chicago Teachers Union Votes to Suspend Strike
The Chicago Teachers Union has agreed to suspend its seven-day strike and return to work. Classes will resume for more than 350,000 students on Wednesday. This does not mean they have agreed to the...
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Obama Re-Endorses Raising Social Security Payroll Tax Cap
While many chuckle over Paul Ryan getting booed at the AARP conference – and sure, that is funny – President Obama actually made some news in his appearance. Because it’s a year divisible by four, he...
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VP Debate: The Constrained Discussion on Social Insurance
I think Dave Weigel highlights the right moment in last night’s Vice Presidential debate, on the subject of Medicare. Paul Ryan is most closely associated with that policy, and Biden was clearly...
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Hurricane Sandy’s Legacy Could Be Ramp-Up of Privatization Efforts
Rebuilding the East Coast after Superstorm Sandy will be an expensive proposition. A new estimate of the cost of the storm now reaches $50 billion, and just protecting New York City from future...
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Governor Chris Christie Announces Privatizing Scheme For Camden City Schools
Governor Chris Christie has announced a state takeover of the Camden school system to force privatization programs. The privatization program had been stymied by residents and their local...
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Newark Students Walk Out To Protest Privatization Plans And Budget Cuts
Though Governor Chris Christie refers to students protesting his privatization plans as drug mules, the students of Newark decided yesterday to stand up for their right to an education and walked out...
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Chicago Teachers Union Files Lawsuit To Stop School Closings
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s latest attempt to privatize education in Chicago is running into considerable opposition. The Chicago Teachers Union, joining up with concerned parents, has filed a lawsuit to...
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Public Education “Reformers” Discredited By Yet Another Study
The privatization of public education movement sometimes called “ed reform” has always had one fatal flaw – none of their claims are supported by the evidence. In modern American politics being...
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Rahm Emanuel Is Losing Control Of Chicago
Chicago has experienced one of its bloodiest weekends yet under “Murder Mayor” Rahm Emanuel with 46 people shot and at least 7 dead. Questions are now being raised as to whether Emanuel can govern the...
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Goldman Sachs Gets Into Public Education
The corporate “ed reform” movement to privatize public education is quite lucrative – public education spending runs in the billions across the country. So should anyone be surprised that Wall Street...
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Poll Shows Highest Level of Public Disapproval for Vouchers Ever
A new PDK/Gallup Poll reveals bad news for the corporate education reform movement to privatize public education. According to the poll vouchers, previously considered a useful wedge weapon against...
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EXCLUSIVE: Records Show Top Chris Christie Advisor Lobbied To Bring More...
Viviana Tulli was murdered by an escaped halfway house inmate One of the most confusing aspects of the halfway house scandal – where numerous inmates escaped halfway houses and committed horrendous...
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Campbell Brown Won’t Say Who Is Funding Her School Privatizing Group
With Michelle Rhee’s effort to bust the teachers unions falling flat from incompetence and corruption, the privatizing crowd wanted a new face for the brand and found one with former news anchor...
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Aerospace company patents a terrible idea for airplane seating arrangement
Zodiac Aerospace, a large global aerospace supplier headquartered in France, has come up with an idea to squeeze more passengers on a plane: turn the middle seat in a three-seat row around, and...
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World Bank Peddling Private, For-Profit Schools In Africa, Disguised As Aid
A row of students study from textbooks beneath a chalkboard at a World Bank School in India. (Flickr / World Bank Photo Collection) Originally published at MintPress News. EDINBURGH — Private,...
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#YouStink: Lebanese Rise Up Against The Capitalist Dream Of Privatization
Presented in partnership with MintPress News. BEIRUT — Lebanon has been described as “the next domino to have fallen to the grand anti-establishment movement currently playing out in the Middle East”...
View ArticleSt. Louis County to Privatize Healthcare at Jail, Documents Show
If St. Louis chooses to privatize healthcare at the Buzz Westfall Detention Center and Family Court Juvenile Justice Center, the county could end up announcing a deal with a contractor any day now....
View ArticleLISTEN: Antony Loewenstein On Rapaciousness Of ‘Disaster Capitalism’
On Dec. 10, Kevin Gosztola and Antony Loewenstein talked about his book, “Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe,” in a live chat with Shadowproof readers. Loewenstein’s book looks at...
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