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Doug McMillon, left, CEO of Wal-Mart Store, Inc., is speaks with Rob Walton, company CFO and son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton at the Wal-Mart shareholder meeting in Fayetteville, Ark., Friday, June 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston) (AP)

The Walton Family plot to privatize the public schools of Arkansas

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The South’s new re-segregation plan: The Koch brothers, ALEC and the sneaky scheme to undo Brown v Board of Education

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Bill Gates should be ashamed: His back-room, charter-school power play hurts kids, public education

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Our new Orwellian double-speak: Right-wing ideologues and compliant media screw our kids

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Arne Duncan’s Race to the Bottom: Our national test fixation isn’t just bad for kids — it doesn’t even work

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Our real charter school nightmare: The new war on public schools and teachers

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Let’s take it to Michelle Rhee and Bill Gates: Here’s how Democrats should talk about education tonight

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Diane Ravitch calls out charter-school nonsense: “Let her bring the hedge fund billionaires and her secret sauce to save all the children”

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The new Common Core lie: Parents who opt out are not the problem

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Diane Ravitch’s devastating Arne Duncan critique: The education secretary earned his F

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Diane Ravitch defends Louis C.K., takes down silly Newsweek piece: “Your belief … has no research to support it, nor is there any real-world evidence”

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Diane Ravitch: School privatization is a hoax, “reformers” aim to destroy public schools

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