I am delighted to invite you to join a webinar where the eminent Duke historian Nancy MacLean and I will discuss “Public Education in Chains,” on February 3 at 3 pm EST.
To register, open the link and sign up.
The event is sponsored by Public Funds Public Schools and the Network for Public Education.
Dr. MacLean is author of the brilliant book Democracy in Chains, which documents the Koch brothers’ relentless efforts to privatize government functions.
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Thanks for making this valuable opportunity available.
No public service should EVER be in private hands. Never, ever!!!
I wonder if the pro- public school groups could set up a legal defense fund for the teachers subject to the new speech laws who are not in unions and won’t have union representation.
It would be a wonderful thing to do.They’ll be absolutely outgunned by the conservative groups/state employees who will be trying to fire them on claims of illegal topics, lessons, etc. Can’t hurt to prepare. I’d donate.
Chiara, only the unions have the money and staff to run a legal defense fund for teachers accused of breaking the speech code. At a time of national teacher shortage, I wonder how many districts will fire teachers. If the unions don’t step up, there is also the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Educatuon Law Center, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Another Very Premeditated Step Toward Privatizing Public Schools In Virginia & Beyond.
Virginia’s newly elected Republican governor, who has banned critical race theory in public schools, is launching a tip line to report teachers of “divisive subjects.”
In a Monday 1/24 interview with the conservative radio host John Fredericks, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said parents could email the state government to report any public-school teachers they believed to be “behaving objectionably.”
Youngkin said: “We’re asking for folks to send us reports and observations that they have that will help us be aware of things like privilege bingo, be aware of their child being denied their rights that parents have in Virginia. And we’re going to make sure we catalog it all.
“This gives us a great insight into what’s happening at a school level, and that gives us further ability to make sure we’re rooting it out.”
Youngkin wants his own Stasi of parents reporting teachers who say “objectionable things.”