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Glad to see Jelani Cobb and Imani Perry push back on Hayes last night, and just the overall limits to how private elites can't solve public problems in America by just showing their desire to. It's a shame that it will take a president of color, and probably a black president at that, as the only way we will see a "Brother's Keeper" program. It's even worse when this first step to addressing the obvious structural racist problems is probably the last step we'll see unless the president is not black or Hispanic. And it's what makes the pushback from Perry, Cobb, and even this nicely written peace from Philly's public student union  important for the discussion. 2011 marked the first time in almost 40 years that public school spending decreased in America , as the Obama Administration's addiction to charter schools gives further cover to the for-profit first and only frauds. Public spending now accounts for just 70 cents of every ed...

In an interview of full disaster yesterday, this particular comment was most alarming : President Obama reopened Monday what is often a sore subject in Washington, saying that his daughters could not obtain from D.C. public schools the academic experience they receive at the private Sidwell Friends School. Obama made his comments on NBC's "Today" show in response to a woman who asked whether Malia and Sasha Obama "would get the same kind of education at a D.C. public school" that they would get at the D.C. private school that has educated generations of the city's elite. "I'll be blunt with you: The answer is no, right now," Obama said. D.C. public schools "are struggling, " he said, but they "have made some important strides over the last several years to move in the direction of reform. There are some terrific individual schools in the D.C. system." It really is disheartening to see how hell bent Obama is at wantin...

Photo from Robert Sciarrino/The Star-Ledger He and his Administration don't even know the difference between 2009 and 2011, and have cost their state public money that they so vociferously hate but somehow vehemently need on the low . fter making a high-profile bid for hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education reform money, New Jersey fell three points short of receiving "Race to the Top" funding, in part because of an error by the Christie administration in the state’s application, records obtained by The Star-Ledger show. One five-point question on the application asked for budget information comparing the 2008 and 2009 school years. However, the state submitted information comparing the current year to 2011. That mistake cost the state 4.8 points. The state lost points in other areas as well, the records show. In the end, New Jersey received 437.8 out of a possible 500 points, placing it 11th in the competition, just behind Ohio, which received $400 mi...