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Six on Schools: Diane Ravitch: Massachusetts: Waltons Spend Millions to Block New Funding for Public Schools; Examination Days: How Chicago Public School Teachers Are Fighting for Black Children’s Futures; The New York African Free School Collection; Federal judge holds DeVos in contempt in loan case; [NYC Parents] letter in response to the College Board asking for corrections

"Maurice Cunningham, a professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, is renowned for his practice of “following the money” in Massachusetts. He naturally keeps encountering the Walton money that flows generously to torpedo public spending for public schools in Massachusetts. Maurice Cunningham is one of the heroes in my forthcoming book SLAYING GOLIATH.

In this post, he identifies the malign tentacles of Walton money that is currently engaged in trying to block legislation to increase the funding of public schools in the Bay State.

The Walton Family’s Massachusetts Political Team, 2019 The Wednesday vote in the House on the Education Funding bill is a crucial test for interest groups opposing the...

You can’t tell the players without a scorecard, and Cunningham provides the scorecard. The name of the organization is less important than the source of the money. If you spot a group called Latinos for Education, remember they are a Walton front.

When you think of the name Walton, think of a family that has accumulated over $150 billion but abhors unions, detests the minimum wage, and likes to keep their workers underpaid and tightly controlled. And think of a family that is intent on destroying the public schools that 85% of American children attend. How would you describe them? Avaricious. Greedy. Selfish."

Massachusetts: Waltons Spend Millions to Block New Funding for Public Schools

Massachusetts: Waltons Spend Millions to Block New Funding for Public Sc... Maurice Cunningham, a professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, is renowned for his pra...

N-Y Historical Society: Examination Days: The New York African Free School Collection 

Examination Days: The New York African Free School Collection

These materials, drawn from the New-York Historical Society’s New York African Free School Collection, explore the experiences of African American children in early-nineteenth-century New York. In 1787, at a time when slavery was crucial to the prosperity and expansion of New York, this school was created by the New York Manumission Society to educate black children.

TOPICS: The New York African Free School, education, abolitionism, the New York Manumission Society, slavery, James McCune Smith, antebellum New York

STRUCTURE: an online collection that preserves student work and community commentary about the school from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and provides lesson plans that interrogate primary sources

Click here for curriculum materials.

Lesson One | Classroom Guides | Examination Days: The New York African F...

How Chicago Public School Teachers Are Fighting for Black Children’s Futures

How Chicago Public School Teachers Are Fighting for Black Children’s Futures

How Chicago Public School Teachers Are Fighting for Black Children’s Fut... Class was canceled for 300,000 Chicago public school students Thursday, as tens of thousands of teachers and the...

Federal judge holds DeVos in contempt in loan case, slaps Education Department with $100,000 fine

Federal judge holds DeVos in contempt in loan case, slaps Education Department with $100,000 fine

Federal judge holds DeVos in contempt in loan case, slaps Education Depa... The ruling comes after the agency revealed that it violated a court order to halt student debt collection on mor...

Oakland Education Association Condemns Violence Against Peaceful Protestors

"Oakland educators demand that OUSD immediately: 

• Enact a moratorium on all planned and future school closures; 

• Issue a public apology to our students, parents and educators for the use of police barricades, over-policing, and violence at last night’s board meeting;

• Defund the OUSD police force, and redirect those funds toward the counselors, nurses and other supports our students need; and immediately suspend, investigate and discipline officers for their behavior last night.”

Oakland Education Association Condemns Violence Against Peaceful Protestors

Oakland Education Association Condemns Violence Against Peaceful Protestors WHAT AN OUTRAGE! “Reform” strikes again. Literally. PRESS STATEMENT & PRESS AVAILABILITY October 24, 2019 Cont...

NYC Public School Parents

Independent voices of New York City public

Our letter in response to the College Board asking for corrections

"As to your point about College Board not selling information about student special needs, our one pager says

this:

...both ACT and College Board (PSAT, SAT, AP) sell personal student data so that colleges and universities, as

well as other non-profit and for-profit organizations, can recruit students and/or market their products and

services. The data sold may include the student’s race, ethnicity, self-reported grades, religion, special needs

status, and/or test scores (within a certain range), as well as other confidential information.

As you can see, the passage refers collectively to the ACT and the College Board and includes the word “may”.

In fact, the ACT has recently admitted that they had sold students’ special needs status to participating

institutions.

As to your second point:

2.Access to Search is strictly limited to accredited higher education, not-for-profit scholarship orgs, and

not-for-profit access organizations. Organizations are never allowed to re-license or re-distribute

information. (See our page about eligibility:

https://collegeboardsearch.collegeboard.org/pastudentsrch/support/licensing/becoming-a-

user/eligibility)

In fact, at the meeting held in Albany last month, the College Board representatives admitted that student data

is sold to for-profit colleges through the Student Search process as long as they are “accredited.”. In addition,

as the NY Times reported in July 2018, a for-profit company marketing an expensive and dubious program to

students had received their contact information from College Board or from one of the College Board’s

“partners”.

When I asked the two representatives from the College Board at the Albany meeting on Sept. 26 whether any

of their data-sharing practices had changed since the NY Times article was published, they shook their heads

decisively and said no.

As to your claim that “Organizations are never allowed to re-license or re-distribute information”, it appears

that they are allowed to do so as long as they have College Board consent, according to p. 12 and p. 18 of a

document posted on your website."

Our letter in response to the College Board asking for corrections

Our letter in response to the College Board asking for corrections Yesterday, we sent a letter to the College Board in response to a letter they sent to us on October 18th, claimi...