House Bill 279 would help the wealthy, while starving public education. To make matters even worse, the tax credit would apply to corporations, too! You can’t make this up: the Montana legislature is considering bumping the tax credit for donations to priv…

This recent opinion piece, by the State Director of Americans for Prosperity (the Koch Brothers’ hatchet organization), is exactly the kind of rhetoric we can expect to increase exponentially over the next months.   Lots of hyperbolic statements and opini…

The results of Montana’s 2020 general election puts our public schools in the crosshairs of privatization advocates. Dear Friends of Public Education   Elections matter.  And the results of Montana’s 2020 general election puts our public schools in the cro…

We all know that “school choice” is a disingenuous phrase that simply means funneling public funds to private, for-profit institutions that have no public accountability or oversight. “School choice” really means that ostensibly educational entities can …

These are extraordinary times with extraordinary challenges and I know that some days seem harder than others. On those hard days, I think of the many ways in which communities across Montana have come together to support their neighbors and their state …

Spoiler: they all want to privatize public education in Montana.   Betsy DeVos is a huge advocate of school privatization.[1] But did you know Superintendent of Public Education Elsie Arntzen also supports school privatization?[2] So does U.S. Representat…

We must make sure that the nearly half billion dollars is not used to start up new for-profit charter schools. Last week Secretary Betsy DeVos appeared before the U.S. House of Representatives. It did not go well. Watch the video below. You won't be disa…

Public education was the target of several attacks last week – overt and covert.   Covertly, our public education systems were labeled “government schools.”  One can argue the semantics, but the purpose is clear: use a term that could evoke negative conn…

In case you forgot, Vice President Mike Pence had to cast a tiebreaking vote to confirm DeVos after she got more “no” votes than any education secretary nominee in U.S. history. Betsy DeVos has been the Secretary of Education for three years, making her one…

A brand new poll of American voters has found broad opposition to the privatization of public education. According to the poll, which was conducted by the National School Boards Association and released February 3rd:   64% of voters think funding for publ…