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Public Education: Parts One, Two, and Three.

Unf*cking The Republic

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Arnie Duncan's Hearing on Charter Schools

The idea of a charter school started all the way back in the 1970s as a division within a public school system that would be free of state and federal curriculum mandates. In theory, if these schools created and implemented successful new teaching modalities, they could use this research to bring these strategies back into individual districts. Arnie Duncan's hearing is a complete blowjob. I mean seriously, I'm actually linking the transcript along with his letters of support. And it's funny because I read a lot more of it than I had planned to do because I just found it fascinating. But holy shit, this was the easiest confirmation in history. Now charter schools are only mentioned four fucking times in the

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