Big Pharma Quietly Enlists Leading Professors to Justify $1,000-Per-Day Drugs Posted by Editor on March 5, 2017 in Education, Pharma 0 Comment “As it readies for battle with President Trump over drug prices, the pharmaceutical industry is deploying economists and health care experts from the nation’s top universities. In scholarly articles, blogs and conferences, they lend their prestige to the lobbying blitz, without always disclosing their corporate ties.”
Kansas Supreme Court Orders Governor to Fund Public Schools Posted by Editor on March 5, 2017 in Education, Taxes 0 Comment “The bad news keeps piling up for Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and his radical budget-cutting experiment. The state Supreme Court ruled that the Republican governor and state legislature had—yet again—failed to adequately fund public schools by hundreds of millions of dollars per year. The court ordered lawmakers to devise a plan that would meet constitutional standards by the end of June and mandated a new formula to increase government spending on the state’s public education system.”
First Lifeline, Now Broadband Program for Schools and Libraries in the FCC’s Crosshairs Posted by Editor on March 1, 2017 in Education, Info Literacy, Technology 0 Comment “Recently the new Federal Communications Commission majority revoked the approval of nine companies to become Lifeline providers and how that would weaken the Lifeline program and widen the digital divide. Now it appears that the E-Rate program, which makes broadband services more affordable for America’s schools and libraries, is in the FCC majority’s crosshairs. And much like the case of Lifeline, the majority is using procedural steps and administrative tools to weaken the E-Rate program.”