This happened April 29. Boston Globe Education published a piece quoting Keri Rodrigues, president of the Walton backed AstroTurf front Massachusetts Parents United. A friend messaged me asking of the Globe “How are they so bad at this?” And my response was the Globe isn’t bad at this: it’s intentional. But just in case the…
Month: April 2021
Why Don’t the Waltons Like Massachusetts Charter School Students?
Don’t ask me, I don’t know why the Walton family doesn’t like Massachusetts charter school students. Sometimes we hear “we measure what we care about” and the money trail shows that what the Waltons care about is not kids but their political fronts like Massachusetts Parents United. The Waltons pour money into political operations to…
Koch Connections and Sham Grassroots of Parents Defending Education
Parents Defending Education is corporate school privatizers going hard right to attack school boards, superintendents, principals, and teachers. It’s a dirty game and it’s about as grassroots as say, a Koch political operation. Mercedes Schneider has figured out the grassroots angle in Parents Defending Education: Prefab “Grassroots”—PDE needs local connections to claim standing in law…
Radical Right Ramps Up War on School Boards, Superintendents, Principals, and Teachers
The following post first appeared on Diane Ravitch’s Blog, link here. A new professedly “grassroots” group called Parents Defending Education has joined the right wing assault on public education. It combines white supremacy with a vicious plan to launch personal attacks on elected officials, administrators, and teachers. Just another day in corporate education reform. This…
How Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance and Paul Craney Screwed Ryan Fattman
Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance’s Paul Craney wrote what may seem to be a defense of Senator Ryan Fattman from an Office of Campaign and Political Finance investigation. It’s more a guilt letter because, you see, it is Mass Fiscal itself that has screwed Senator Fattman. Mr. Craney’s piece in Commonwealth Magazine is titled Fattman Case Deserves…