Black Agenda Report: Arne Duncan and Barack Obama's “Race to the Top”

Submitted by lorinpda on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 20:45

by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez

Published by Black Agenda Report

“We will deepen and consolidate a race and class stratified education system.”

The Obama administration has announced its long anticipated education plan, and it has turned out to be the usual market crapshoot approach to public education which has long distinguished this country from every other. The white “progressive” “Meritocracy” of the United States ruling class, which after standing blotto at the bankruptcy of the world by their gangster partners, now believes it has an unimpeded right to sell off what remains of the public interest, and plans to lend its own shiny finish to the Bush administration’s test fetish absurdity “No Child Left Behind.”  Read more »

McCain=Bush

Submitted by lorinpda on Sat, 07/12/2008 - 08:40

Written by Carol Kreck. Orginal post at Huffington Post here.

Greetings from the little old librarian.

It's been quite a week for me, McCain, the police and the Secret Service. While I may write more later, there are a couple issues I would like to address now -- but first, an excerpt from today's Denver Post story by Felisa Cardona:

It was Sen. John McCain's staff who asked security at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts to remove people holding protest signs at the venue -- not U.S. Secret Service agents, who were not involved in Carol Kreck's ouster from the galleria.

A video of the incident circulating widely on the Internet shows a DCPA security guard saying that he was told by the Secret Service to remove Kreck, who was holding a paper sign that said "McCain = Bush."

But Thursday, after two days of being vilified by bloggers, letter writers and others, the Secret Service emphatically denied involvement. [...]

"A representative of Senator John McCain's staff respectfully asked that the venue for its July 7 Town Hall Meeting, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, not allow persons to display signage within the Arts Complex," DCPA officials said in a statement.

DCPA spokeswoman Suzanne Blandon said the guard who told Kreck to leave was "simply mistaken" in identifying the Secret Service as the agency that wanted her to leave. Blandon said the guard did not intend to use the Secret Service as leverage and did not mean to mislead anyone.

"He is not a trained speaker in any way," she said. "It was the height of the moment, a situation not typical of that complex. He was simply trying to uphold the policy as he understood it to be."

Single Payer Heats Up in Chicago

Submitted by lorinpda on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 19:17

Original Post at Daily Kos here.

by CatJab

Mon Jun 09, 2008 at 06:11:21 AM PDT

EVERYONE in Illinois regardless of age, income status or illness.  Read more »