Category Education
Zest of the Day: John Romano on “grassroots” support hurting parent trigger
Along the lines of several posts this past week here and elsewhere that have exposed the fraud that is the “grassroots” movement behind parent trigger and reiterating my posting yesterday about Jeb Bush’s personal political agenda, John Romano has nicely summarized everything in today’s Tampa Bay Times.
Jeb Bush’s desire to bust unions, not grassroots support pushing “school choice” on Republican lawmakers
As the”parent trigger” debate has reminded us, the school “choice” movement is a well-funded, politically motivated campaign which falsifies organizational support and has failed to captivate the grassroots despite the spending of tens of millions of dollars on propaganda here in the state of Florida. After more than a decade and a half of endless […]
Parent Trigger: A Grassroots Movement?
In our recent three part series on school “choice” legislation we dissected the funding mechanisms for the campaign to push school vouchers in Florida, particularly John Kirtley’s “All Children Matter.” I regret that we did not list those bankroll nor discuss “Parent Revolution” a California based group that implies it is a grassroots oriented movement […]
Allen West is a Bully
Allen West is a bully, plain and simple. Students at FAU were upset with the school’s decision to take money from a controversial private prison company that would give them naming rights to the stadium. They were not alone in being against the situation, as was evident from the national coverage this news received. It […]
The Florida Squeeze 