The Annie E. Casey Foundation, hardly a member of the vast-right wing conspiracy, produces an annual report card on our nation’s schools. The recently released report shows that in last year, only “49.9% of [Minnesota] students are meeting or exceeding their grade level. That same report indicated that the results of each assessment area remained roughly 10 percentage points below their …
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Black students from Alabama State College stage a mass rally on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in 1960, in defiance of a warning from Governor John Patterson. BY HELEN J. KNOWLES-GARDNER / MADE BY HISTORY Sixty-six years ago, the Supreme Court unanimously decided in NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson that compelling private organizations to disclose the identities of their members and …
Last year, the good folks at Ed Choice released a working paper, “Priorities of State and Local Governments from 1994 – 2002” that details the priorities of K-12 spending in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. “Public school advocacy organizations, elected officials, and the media routinely make assertions that lead Americans to believe (incorrectly) that K-12 public education has …
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