Truthout
Privatization
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Know Who Is “Cashing In on Kids“
A collaboration between the group In the Public Interest and the American Federation of Teachers offers progressive education activists a new resource for pushing back against efforts to turn …
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Creating a Pedagogy in Common: Excerpt From “Toward a New Common School Movement“
The authors of “Toward a New Common School Movement” argue for defending a not-yet-realized “public” in public schools.
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To Privatize or Not to Privatize
The further privatization of public education is often hidden in the language of education u201creformu201d while proof is emerging in countries that are extensively privatized that results are not …
The Myth Behind Public School Failure
In the rush to privatize the country's schools, corporations and politicians have decimated school budgets, replaced teaching with standardized testing, and placed the blame on teachers and students.
School’s Out: The Decimation of Public Education
On this edition of Making Contact weu2019ll explore how the privatization of public education is playing out across the country and how students and teachers are fighting back.
Secret Plans and Clever Tricks: How Information About Public Contracting Is Hidden From the Public
Evidence abounds that when private companies take over formerly public roles, the public's right to know gets contracted away as well.
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Snowden on the Dangers of the ‘Privatized’ National Security State, in the Interview the US ‘News’ Networks Didn’t Bother to Show You
Officials were required to offer absolutely no evidence for their extraordinary claims that Snowden was a “Russian agent” on the three major broadcast networks.
Shocking Facts About America’s For-Profit Prison Industry
When you can get inmate labor for less than a dollar a day, it's hard to see the government's motivation for incarcerating fewer people. And it's all done at …
Kids for Cash: Inside One of the Nation’s Most Shocking Juvenile Justice Scandals
The shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received $2.6 million in kickbacks from the builders and owners of private …
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The Public-Private Profiteers
Health care isn't the first boon that President Obama tried to give us through a public-private partnership.