The Boston Globe is reporting Some Newton parents join lawsuit seeking damages for 11-day teachers strike. This has nothing to do with parents. It’s a meritless frolic to attack public education engineered by out of state Christian nationalists. The immediate target is the Newton Teachers Association and if you don’t like them you should still…
Author: Maurice Cunningham
“A political hit job”: The Boston Globe’s Shirley Leung Interviews Nancy MacLean on Claudine Gay Case
I cannot recommend strongly enough that you read this Shirley Leung piece interviewing historian Nancy MacLean about the malign forces attacking higher education, including the Claudine Gay case. Then listen to the entirety of Ms. Leung’s interview with Professor MacLean at the Globe’s Say More. These are the same folks attacking K-12 over CRT and…
Moms for Liberty Cuddles Up to Proud Boys . . . Again
Moms for Liberty got caught canoodling with the Proud Boy. Again. In stage horror, Moms for Liberty issued a press release stating “Moms for Liberty is in no way affiliated with the Proud Boys…”. Again. So let’s revisit some of the coverage of the Moms for Liberty-Proud Boys coupling—the one we know the Moms would…
How to Understand Democrats for Education Reform Using Two Quotes from Democrats for Education Reform
Democrats for Education Reform face-planted again in Tuesday’s Boston municipal election and that got me thinking about how to define DFER in two quotes from DFER itself. Here they are. “We’re essentially bundlers”—Joe Williams, DFER president, 2012. (He went on to be director of the Walton Education Coalition and now is political director of Walton…
A Citizens Guide to School Privatization
A Citizen’s Guide to School Privatization Last week was the annual conference of the Network for Public Education and part of my contribution was an 18 page report, A Citizens Guide to School Privatization. I’ll be adding to it over time as phony billionaire “moms” and “parents” groups proliferate. For now it includes national groups…
Keri Rodrigues Lolling in Fox Love
Fox News favorite “liberal” “Democrat” Keri Rodrigues is once again swaddling in love from America’s most penalized media outlet. This time Fox gets to use Rodrigues’ criticism of the Biden administration from the “liberal” position, allowing Rupert Murdoch’s $787,500,000-poorer outfit to get huffy from the left. Unless of course you know and acknowledge absolutely anything—a…
Banned in Boston (Globe) II: the Barr Foundation/Hostetter 2021 Political Team
Last year I published The Barr Foundation-Hostetter Political Team to set out non-profit advocacy spending by the foundation of Boston billionaire Amos Hostetter through 2020, then the most recent data available. Today I’m updating that with donations through 2021 and the addition of some additional advocacy groups. And no, uh-uh, fuhgeddabouditt, no way will you…
Moms for Liberty Summit Infiltrated by Sexual Predator!!!
Dear Ms. Tina Descovich and Ms. Tiffany Justice, As spokespersons for Moms for Liberty, you know there is no group that has done so much to protect the innocence of America’s children as you! Whether it’s disappearing LGBTQ teens or exposing communists’ scheme to turn American children into “little sexual weirdo(s)” you’ve led our nation’s…
Moms for Liberty and Hitler: Love the Message, Hate the Messenger
Moms for Liberty has been trying to apologize for a chapter head quoting Hitler as an authority on public education but has a problem: they need the quote, they just don’t want the attribution. To recap, an Indiana chapter head put out a newsletter quoting Hitler: “He alone, who OWNS the youth, GAINS the future.”…
Moms for Liberty Quotes Hitler. It’s No Accident.
The Indianapolis Star has the Moms for Liberty headline of the day: “Moms for Liberty’s Hamilton County chapter quotes Hitler in first newsletter.” This isn’t some overzealous nutty volunteer. M4L carefully vets its chapter heads. Here’s some more from the Star: Just below The Parent Brigade’s masthead was a quote Hitler used at a Nazi…