Summary: <br> Welcome, to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and <br> analysis from a Black Left perspective with Glen Ford and his co-host, <br> Nellie Bailey.<br> <br> <br> – The number of charter schools has grown by <br> leaps and bounds under President Obama and his so-called “Race to the <br> Top” program. A new book is out, called the “Charter School Report <br> Card,” authored by Dr. Shawgi Tell, a professor of Education at Nazareth<br> College, in Rochester, New York. He says charter schools “lower the <br> quality of education through privatization and marketization of <br> schools.” Charter school boosters claim they provide better educational <br> results. But Dr. Tell says there’s little evidence to support that.<br> -<br> The number of young people put behind bars in the United States has <br> gone down by 50 percent in the past decade. However, despite the overall<br> decline, the disparity in Black youth incarceration has gone UP 15 <br> percent over the past ten years. Josh Rovner, of The Sentencing Project,<br> is author of a new report titled “Racial Disparities in Youth Arrests <br> and Commitments.” We asked Rovner why the general rate of youth <br> incarceration has gone down so dramatically.<br> - Skyrocketing <br> student debt has emerged as a big campaign issue this presidential <br> election season. Darletta Scruggs, of the Socialist Alternative Party, <br> is helping put together plans for a Million Student March. Scruggs was <br> recently interviewed on Your World News, by host Solomon Commisiong.<br> -<br> A huge cache of leaked documents from a Panama bank showed that many <br> world leaders, their families and associates are hiding billions of <br> dollars in offshore banks. Wealthy Americans were not prominent on list,<br> but that’s because it’s easy to hide money right here in the U.S., in <br> states like Delaware. Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute<br> for Policy Studies, in Washington. He wrote an article titled, “Panama <br> Papers Expose the Hidden Wealth of the World’s Super-Rich.” Collins says<br> different kinds of millionaires and criminals have different kinds of <br> illicit banking needs.<br> - Mark Weisbrot is co-director of another <br> progressive Washington think tank, the Center for Economic and Policy <br> Research. Weisbrot keeps a keen eye on Latin American developments. He <br> says that, back in 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that<br> the military overthrow of the elected president of Honduras was, <br> somehow, NOT a coup.<br>
