The State’s answers on the digital divide lacks imagination, staying power, and enforcement. We can do better, and there are plenty of examples of cities that are. The Department of Education recently announced its digital divide task force, which had about as many teeth as George Washington. Here’s how they describe it’s powers, “The task…
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New New Deal-Employment, Connectivity, and A Better Oakland
A guest post from school board candidate Mark Hurty, we always welcome solution oriented guest posts Back in 2008, when he was leading the Ella Baker Center here in Oakland, Van Jones articulated a bold and modern reworking of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. The key feature of FDR’s new deal was that it put the unemployed to work while…