The Common Ills: Episode 87: Teachers Corral Charter Schools; No Nerds, No Birds

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Episode 87: Teachers Corral Charter Schools; No Nerds, No Birds

I start off on the West Coast with a conversation with Sylvia Cabrera, a “this is the future” union activist who helped lead winning organizing drives at three schools in Los Angeles owned by the biggest charter school chain in the area. So, yeah, charter schools undermine the public school system but, if they exist, they best be unionized.

I, then, go to the final frontier, where no person has gone before…I couldn’t help channel a little Star Trek there to forecast a chat with Paul Shearon, the incoming president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), which represents, among a whole slew of varied workers, NASA rocket scientists.

Our Robber Baron of the week is the CEO of Time Warner Jeff Bewkes.

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Episode 87: Teachers Corral Charter Schools; No Nerds, No Birds

Episode 87: I start off on the West Coast with a conversation with Sylvia Cabrera, a “this is the future” union activist who helped lead winning organizing drives at three schools in Los Angeles owned by the biggest charter school chain in the area. So, yeah, charter schools undermine the public school system but, if they exist, they best be unionized. I, then, go to the final frontier, where no person has gone before…I couldn’t help channel a little Star Trek there to forecast a chat with Paul Shearon, the incoming president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), which represents, among a whole slew of varied workers, NASA rocket scientists. Our Robber Baron of the week is the CEO of Time Warner Jeff Bewkes.

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