Ron Halpern's Blog – October 2015 Archive (1)

I am working on a film the tells the story of the corporate takeover threat to public education.

In the summer of 2014 my partner on this project, Jack Paar, attended a BATs congress in D.C. with his wife who is a public school teacher.  He shot about 20 hours of interviews and footage with teachers and some students.

I'm interested in what's going on because my mom was a public school teacher for 25 years.  So what teachers are talking about has always been of…