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The article talks about off-the-books suspensions, an action taken by school staff in response to a child's behavior and is a common practice among U.S. schools. Topics covered include how the excessive use of informal removal has evade accountability, the problem with removals being not recorded as class suspensions, and how the practice is denying children with disabilities their legal right to an education.

The article discusses the Educational Quality through Innovative Partnerships (EQUIP) Pilot Program of the U.S Department of Education (DOE). It states that the program allows community colleges to use federal Pell grant for training programs administered by nontraditional groups. It mentions that the program requires 450 hours of class time which would leave training programs without aid.

The authors examine the strategies employed by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush that led to the break down of the U.S. government. They say that the abuses made by President Bush during his term of office is comparable to the misuse of executive power during the Watergate affair. According to the authors, the methods to expand the powers of the executive branch were not directly perpetrated by Bush or Vice-President Dick Cheney but by low-level political appointees.