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May 11, 2015 By Bruno Behrend

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Reposting my “Government Education Complex” piece

November 12, 2013 By Bruno Behrend

I doubt if I was the first person to use the phrase “Government-Education Complex,” but I use it often to describe the current education system. Others have clearly started to pick up on the meme, which is good. A friend of mine in Indiana emailed me and asked me to define it for him. So […]

Fisking Allison Benedikt

August 29, 2013 By Bruno Behrend

I haven’t posted to here in ages, since I basically get more traffic and eyeballs on Facebook. That said, I felt the need to put this article/post on a blog post so I could link to it. Here is an article posted by one Allison Benedikt, who is editor of some section of Slate. I […]

District Dismantlement moves to Philly

April 30, 2012 By Bruno Behrend

We are beginning to see the benefits of the New Orleans experiment in disempowering school district bureaucrats and breaking up the large districts. It is time for Rahm Emanuel to consider the same solutions for Chicago’s failing and bloated infrastructure. Phila. School District plan would dismantle central office, close schools “What we do know through […]

Dismantle the large districts first…

April 28, 2012 By Bruno Behrend

Then dismantle the smaller ones. When the Washington Post starts writing editorials like this, it can’t be long before more liberals start to see the light on education. The Big Easy’s school revolution But what really distinguishes New Orleans is how government has re­defined its role in education: stepping back from directly running schools and […]

The “Human Toll” indeed

April 28, 2012 By Bruno Behrend

Rich Miller posted some legislator’s comment on the “Human Toll” of the upcoming budget cuts. It detailed all of the pain that would be generated from some of the cuts to Medicaid that are being discussed. The comment that I placed on this post is below. Some time around to 2005, I questioned former Rep. […]

Public Sector Unions – just abolish them

June 15, 2011 By Bruno Behrend

Here’s why.

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April 28, 2011 By Bruno Behrend

The first one of these can be found on their site, or on YouTube. It is funny and enlightening. This one, shown below, should be sent to your liberal and moderate friends far and wide.

Bruno Behrend on WPWR

April 11, 2011 By Bruno Behrend

The video is of appearance on WPWR’s (Channel 50) “Perspective” program a few months ago. You may be interested in the other 3 guests, as they make the conventional case for dumping more money into a failed education system. If not, my stint starts at the 11:22 mark. The Latest News On School Reform and […]

Two videos to help win the budget debate

April 5, 2011 By Bruno Behrend

It’s a testament to the slow witted nature of the Republicans that they haven’t found a way to run this ad across the country. It makes the case for cuts so clearly that only the most partisan person could deny its truth. Let the sheer magnitude of the problem do the heavy lifting. Next up, […]

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