Education
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss ways in which corruption thrives without competitive elections.
John DePetro and Justin Katz check in on politics in RI.
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the political news of the week.
John DePetro and Justin Katz review the latest signs that Rhode Island’s bolts are loosening.
John DePetro and Justin Katz discuss the relevance of local, state, and national political news.
Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby offers a startling statistic: Blaming the Department of Education isn’t only a matter of post hoc ergo propter hoc, and I’d say the unionization of teachers played an equal or greater role in destroying American education. To be sure, both developments echo a similar underlying problem in the same direction: They move…
John DePetro and Justin Katz expose the underlying connections in RI politics.
I mean, look at this: The scores were abysmal to start; the goals were obviously fictitious when considered in the absence of a practical plan; and the final results are offensively bad. If these results aren’t causing outrage, it’s because nobody in the Democrat establishment or news media wants to address the underlying problems, which…
John DePetro and Justin Katz talk about who benefits (and who doesn’t) from recent items in the news.
When Elorza was mayor, it seemed embarrassing for him to take a public event as an opportunity to confront McKee, but his recent comments about public education in Providence, which formed the basis for the confrontation, suggest his emotions were well placed and genuine: “What we have now is a system that locks in place…