Archive : Education

Flunking Teachers Gives the Ruling Class a Pass

Flunking Teachers Gives the Ruling Class a Pass

By Bill Boyarsky, from Truthdig With all the evil people in the world, why are public schoolteachers being villainized? And how did they attract such powerful enemies? Some of the country’s best-known mainstream powers are blaming the teachers for the troubles of the public school system. Bill Gates is a leader in this, as is President [...]

Outraged [Green Party] Teachers Apply for Jobs at Hearst

Outraged [Green Party] Teachers Apply for Jobs at Hearst

By Sarah Kate Kramer, WNYC   Enlarge Retired public school teachers Betty Davis and Elizabeth Shanklin outside of the Hearst Corporation headquarters.(Sarah Kramer/WNYC) A day after Cathie Black received a waiver from the state education commissioner so she could take the top job in the New York City public school system, a small group of Green Party [...]

Colia Clark for U.S. Senator from NYS, 2010

Colia Clark for U.S. Senator from NYS, 2010

Colia L. Liddell LaFayette Clark is the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senator from NYS in 2010. “As US Senator, I will work tirelessly to address the failing economy, failing schools, criminal injustice system, failing infrastructure, crisis in…

An Interview with Howie Hawkins

[From: The Free George, online magazine of Albany, Saratoga, the Lake George Region and the Adirondacks.] As part of an ongoing Meet the Candidates series, we recently spoke by phone with New York Gubernatorial Candidiate Howie Hawkins (G) to discuss h…

Howie Hawkins, Candidate for Governor of NY, on Education

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party of NY’ s candidate for Governor of NY State, on education in NYS.