Public Education
Hundreds continue Selma-Montgomery march across Alabama
March 6, 2012In addition to shining a light on current day attacks on voting rights, immigrant rights and workers rights. marchers yesterday added the fight for universal public education to their agenda.
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Over 1,000 at Oregon Capitol protest cuts, school privatization
February 21, 2012More than a thousand public employee unionists, educators, parents, environmentalists, and Occupy activists rallied for a "Strong Schools, Strong Oregon" day of mass action at the state Capitol.
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Parents, community occupy Chicago school, demand to be heard
February 21, 2012The occupiers were dramatizing their frustration with plans by the Chicago Public Schools to close the school and reopen it as a charter.
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Chicago Teachers Union: Black teachers, students most affected by school closings
February 9, 2012CHICAGO - Fed up with discrimination, the Chicago Teachers Union filed a complaint Feb. 9 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charging the Board of Education's mass teacher layoffs last year unfairly impacted African American teachers.
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Colombia’s students defend public education, join worldwide movement
November 16, 2011Colombian students are rejecting a government proposal aimed at privatizing public higher education. Students are demanding an alternative education that's democratic, free, and serves the great majority.
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