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North Carolina’s “Charter Schools Lite” Plan? Stand on Street with Sign “Will Trade Asinine School Reform for Federal Dollars”

Posted Wed, 05/26/2010 - 04:21 by Demian Dellinger

North Carolina’s “Charter Schools Lite” Plan: “Will Trade Asinine School Reform for Federal Dollars”
North Carolina, please, stop. You’re killing me. So desperate for Race to the Top Funds, so unwilling to innovate, and so focused on the dollar that you’re ignoring the real needs of our schools and our kids.

North Carolina Proposes Dropping School Buildings Full of Children from the Sky.

Posted Sun, 05/23/2010 - 18:19 by Demian Dellinger

No really, imagine school buildings full of children falling from the sky and crashing to earth and exploding into balls of fire.

It's a little less dramatic and a lot less fun to watch those same kids suffer through 13 years of terrible North Carolina education but in the end the result is the same, a bunch of kids burned by North Carolina politics and with no future.

The Lottery - A Documentary Film about Charter Schools and Public Education

Posted Sat, 05/15/2010 - 03:48 by Demian Dellinger

North Carolina Democratic Party Risks Much in Wake County Neighborhood Schools Fight

Posted Wed, 03/10/2010 - 17:25 by Demian Dellinger

The battle being fought in Wake County, North Carolina between neighborhood school advocates and busing advocates could prove to be an extremely damaging miscalculation by the Democratic Party in North Carolina.

South Carolina Lt. Governor Stirs Controversy by Equating Poor Families to Stray Animals

Posted Tue, 01/26/2010 - 15:39 by Demian Dellinger

North Carolina NAACP demonstrates the weakness of African-American "Leadership"

Posted Tue, 01/12/2010 - 01:49 by Demian Dellinger

Reverend Barber is rallying the NC NAACP for battle against the Wake County School board, against community schools and against any sliver of credibility the organization may have had left.

Wake County must face the EVAAS facts

Posted Mon, 01/11/2010 - 22:34 by Demian Dellinger

With its new school board Wake County Commissioners and board members must objectively and unflinchingly look at the data.

North Carolina Scores an "F" in Innovation?

Posted Mon, 09/07/2009 - 01:32 by Demian Dellinger

In a letter dated August 27, 2009 North Carolina officially declared public charter schools an insignificant engine for innovating and improving public education.

Are KIPP Schools are a Mark of Shame?

Posted Thu, 09/03/2009 - 03:10 by Demian Dellinger

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. . . or unfortunately blessed to repeat it.

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