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Sacrosanct education lobby demonizes outsiders trying to fix public schools

By World Tribune Life on May 1, 2014 Commentary, Culture, Thomas Sowell

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell It is not easy to demonize people who have spent hundreds of millions of dollars of their own money to help educate poor children. But some members of the education establishment are taking a shot at it. The Walton Family Foundation — created by the people who created Walmart […]

Sowell to Holder: ‘Have you no sense of decency, sir?’

By World Tribune Life on April 29, 2014 Commentary, Culture, Thomas Sowell

Special to WorldTribune.com By Thomas Sowell Of all the cynical frauds of the Obama administration, few are so despicable as sacrificing the education of poor and minority children to the interests of the teachers’ unions. Attorney General Eric Holder’s attempt to suppress the spread of charter schools in Louisiana was just one of the signs […]