by Williamson Strong | Jul 29, 2016 | AFP, Candidates, Vouchers, Williamson County Schools |
The local party officials of the GOP are partnering with two pro-privatization groups to offer free food and a “talk” led by Glen Casada (who has received more than $15K from pro-privatization groups) regarding vouchers and their other education privatization efforts...
by Williamson Strong | Jul 24, 2016 | AFP, Williamson County Schools |
On this day, two years ago, Kent Davis (a major funder of Curlee, Burgos, Cash, and Emerson) laid out the plan for the final days of the 2014 WCSB campaign. He wrote that final ads should be “focused on helping the candidates and should ignore the opponents.”...
by Williamson Strong | Oct 31, 2014 | AFP, Williamson County Schools |
AFP bragged that it spent $500,000 in Tennessee on Education/Common Core-related fights in the six weeks prior to the August elections. AFP also cited the new WCS board as a major victory. How much of that cool half mill went to the WCS board race? We estimate that...
by Williamson Strong | Sep 26, 2014 | AFP, Vouchers, Williamson County Schools |
We’d better find out, because it looks like our new school board majority is working for them. Common Core is an opening gambit, folks. Next up may well be getting rid of an AP US History class because they think the curriculum is insufficiently patriotic. But the big...
by Williamson Strong | Sep 24, 2014 | AFP, Williamson County Schools |
Is what is currently happening in Jefferson County CO the future of Williamson County? Jefferson County elected a new school board back by the Koch Brothers American for Prosperity last year. It sounds like the new WCS school board has an eerily similar playbook....
