Little birds are flying around everywhere these days, tweeting "school choice" as the last hope for education reform. We find it praised on the editorial pages of Education Next, in a book by DC-based self-styled education policy expert Chester Finn, and by Donald J. Trump, the next president of the United States.
"Choice" was the slogan for a question on the November ballot in Massachusetts asking voters to loosen the cap on charter schools in the state. (It went down in flames). But "school choice" fails to address the type of choice most parents today might desire: classroom choice—a choice of classroom type, not choice of school management.
DALLAS — A federal judge has ordered Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey to travel to the Lone Star State next month to answer questions, under oath, from attorneys representing ExxonMobil, who allege Healey conspired with environmental activists and engaged in a political "witch hunt" with other progressive state attorneys generals when she issued the energy giant a civil investigation demand.
Last spring Healey and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman pounced on ExxonMobil in an effort to force the company to cough up 40 years' worth of internal records, documents they claim will show that ExxonMobil scientists knew of the energy giant's role in climate change and intentionally covered up relevant information.
