Public Education – Page 5

Philly hunger strikers fast for safe schools

June 25, 2013 By Ben Sears

"This is breakfast, lunch and dinner. Every day, for eight days," said Patricia Norris as she held up her bottle of water. Norris is on a "water only" fast outside Republican Gov. Tom Corbett's regional office.

Chicago protests to stop 54 school closings heat up

May 21, 2013 By John Bachtell

"We are not going without a fight!" declared nine-year-old Asean Johnson, a third grader at Marcus Garvey Elementary School. "We shall not be moved today!"

Teachers win as state high court kills Louisiana voucher law

May 10, 2013 By Press Associates

Another Republican statewide scheme to trash public schools and school teachers, especially unionized teachers, ran afoul of yet another state constitution.

Bus tour solicits New Yorkers’ priorities for schools

March 22, 2013 By Estevan Bassett-Nembhard

NEW YORK - After more than a decade of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's corporate restructuring of public education, a coalition of community groups hit the streets to ask New Yorkers, especially parents, what their priorities really were.

New York City elections hold promise of change

March 21, 2013 By Danny Rubin

During the last 20 years of the Giuliani and then Bloomberg administrations, the living standards of the 99 percent have steadily declined, while the wealth of the 1 percent has risen.