education Free school lunches are not worth the cost, according to rich, out-of-touch pundit Ben Shapiro Mark Frauenfelder
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media Right-wing political propaganda posing as local news circulating across country Jennifer Sandlin
the cruelty is the point Waukesha Wisconsin school board rejects federal meal program because it will "spoil" families and create a "slow addiction" to the service Mark Frauenfelder
privacy Private Join and Compute is Google's free/open source tool to allow "mulitparty computation" of encrypted data without decryption Cory Doctorow
Kids Indiana's "educational achievement" bonuses: teachers in rich schools get 20x more than those in poor districts Cory Doctorow