Education
Columbus Board of Education forces teachers to strike days before school starts
August 23, 2022Starting pay for Columbus teachers can be as low as $36,344, and students will be sweating in classrooms with outdated HVAC systems.
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Rural Texans—even conservative ones—unconvinced by Republicans’ public school privatization crusade
August 9, 2022Any school choice policy must win over rural Republicans, who have historically been against diverting public dollars to private schools.
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Columbus school board pushes teachers to prepare for possible strike
August 2, 2022At the heart of the divide are dangerous teaching conditions and a tax break scheme that benefits developers at the cost of students’ education.
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No raise in four years, eviction after two: Sinai postdocs unionize with UAW
June 28, 202289.5 percent of the postdocs, who conduct a huge amount of the medical research at Sinai, voted union.
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Public school privatization privileges profits over learning
June 23, 2022Structurally segregated by race and driven by economic inequalities, the U.S. education system is designed to limit the technical and cultural development of the working class.
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