Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/09/23/social-impact-bonds-pay-for-success-yet-another-form-of-privatization/ For those of us who know more about public education than Wall Street investment schemes, Valerie Strauss and Kenneth Saltman (education writer and professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) did us a favor last week. In … Continued
September 21, 2016 By Michaela Ross Sept. 20 — After multiple hacks of Democratic Party e-mail systems and fears of Russian cyber attacks on the U.S. election, paper ballots have taken on an unexpected appeal. Online voting software companies are … Continued
Posted at http://fair.org/home/dakota-access-blackout-continues-on-abc-nbc-news/ Neil Young’s song about the Dakota Access pipeline fight is 5 minutes, 39 seconds longer than the combined coverage of the controversy on the ABC and NBC networks. (screenshot: Slate) The Sacred Stone Camp established by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe … Continued
Posted at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11936179/What-are-the-biggest-defence-budgets-in-the-world.html The United States dominates the world when it comes to defence spending – but how do other countries compare? By Ashley Kirk, 8:41AM GMT 27 Oct 2015 The United States’ military spending has dominated the world for years, … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): Now, the Arctic Ocean AND the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are in Big Oil’s crosshairs, including places in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a place sacred to the Gwich’in people where polar bears and caribou … Continued
From the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (http://www.nrcat.org): We again find ourselves in sorrow as bombs were found in New York area neighborhoods, one of which injured many innocent people. In our grief though, we do not want to forget … Continued
From First Focus (https://firstfocus.org/): The report, Kids’ Share 2016: Federal Expenditures on Children through 2015 and Future Projections, offers a hard look at federal money available to kids. It was funded by First Focus and the Annie E. Casey Foundation … Continued
By: HUD Exchange Published: September 13, 2016 HUD published a final rule formalizing legal standards under the Fair Housing Act for sexual and other forms of harassment in housing. In addition, HUD is issuing Fair Housing Act guidance on local “nuisance ordinances” that may … Continued
Check out the Coalition for Peace Action’s 2016 Presidential Peace Voter Guide at https://www.peacecoalition.org/campaigns/peace-voter-2016.html. It is thoroughly researched, and compares the major party candidates on key issues with which CFPA has been engaged, including Gun Violence and Climate Justice. This … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/09/21/please-read-this-penetrating-indictment-of-the-every-student-succeeds-act/ Participating earlier this week in one of the Ohio Department of Education’s stakeholder meetings about the plan Ohio will be developing to submit to the U.S. Department of Education to comply with the new Every Student Succeeds … Continued