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Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and
analysis from a Black Left perspective with Glen Ford and his co-host,
Nellie Bailey.
– The number of charter schools has grown by
leaps and bounds under President Obama and his so-called “Race to the
Top” program. A new book is out, called the “Charter School Report
Card,” authored by Dr. Shawgi Tell, a professor of Education at Nazareth
College, in Rochester, New York. He says charter schools “lower the
quality of education through privatization and marketization of
schools.” Charter school boosters claim they provide better educational
results. But Dr. Tell says there’s little evidence to support that.
-
The number of young people put behind bars in the United States has
gone down by 50 percent in the past decade. However, despite the overall
decline, the disparity in Black youth incarceration has gone UP 15
percent over the past ten years. Josh Rovner, of The Sentencing Project,
is author of a new report titled “Racial Disparities in Youth Arrests
and Commitments.” We asked Rovner why the general rate of youth
incarceration has gone down so dramatically.
- Skyrocketing
student debt has emerged as a big campaign issue this presidential
election season. Darletta Scruggs, of the Socialist Alternative Party,
is helping put together plans for a Million Student March. Scruggs was
recently interviewed on Your World News, by host Solomon Commisiong.
-
A huge cache of leaked documents from a Panama bank showed that many
world leaders, their families and associates are hiding billions of
dollars in offshore banks. Wealthy Americans were not prominent on list,
but that’s because it’s easy to hide money right here in the U.S., in
states like Delaware. Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute
for Policy Studies, in Washington. He wrote an article titled, “Panama
Papers Expose the Hidden Wealth of the World’s Super-Rich.” Collins says
different kinds of millionaires and criminals have different kinds of
illicit banking needs.
- Mark Weisbrot is co-director of another
progressive Washington think tank, the Center for Economic and Policy
Research. Weisbrot keeps a keen eye on Latin American developments. He
says that, back in 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that
the military overthrow of the elected president of Honduras was,
somehow, NOT a coup.
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Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and
analysis from a Black Left perspective with Glen Ford and his co-host,
Nellie Bailey.
– The number of charter schools has grown by
leaps and bounds under President Obama and his so-called “Race to the
Top” program. A new book is out, called the “Charter School Report
Card,” authored by Dr. Shawgi Tell, a professor of Education at Nazareth
College, in Rochester, New York. He says charter schools “lower the
quality of education through privatization and marketization of
schools.” Charter school boosters claim they provide better educational
results. But Dr. Tell says there’s little evidence to support that.
-
The number of young people put behind bars in the United States has
gone down by 50 percent in the past decade. However, despite the overall
decline, the disparity in Black youth incarceration has gone UP 15
percent over the past ten years. Josh Rovner, of The Sentencing Project,
is author of a new report titled “Racial Disparities in Youth Arrests
and Commitments.” We asked Rovner why the general rate of youth
incarceration has gone down so dramatically.
- Skyrocketing
student debt has emerged as a big campaign issue this presidential
election season. Darletta Scruggs, of the Socialist Alternative Party,
is helping put together plans for a Million Student March. Scruggs was
recently interviewed on Your World News, by host Solomon Commisiong.
-
A huge cache of leaked documents from a Panama bank showed that many
world leaders, their families and associates are hiding billions of
dollars in offshore banks. Wealthy Americans were not prominent on list,
but that’s because it’s easy to hide money right here in the U.S., in
states like Delaware. Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute
for Policy Studies, in Washington. He wrote an article titled, “Panama
Papers Expose the Hidden Wealth of the World’s Super-Rich.” Collins says
different kinds of millionaires and criminals have different kinds of
illicit banking needs.
- Mark Weisbrot is co-director of another
progressive Washington think tank, the Center for Economic and Policy
Research. Weisbrot keeps a keen eye on Latin American developments. He
says that, back in 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that
the military overthrow of the elected president of Honduras was,
somehow, NOT a coup.
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