schools
New Yorkers protest hedge fund-backed charter school ad
October 5, 2015Parents, civil rights leaders, elected officials, clergy and advocacy groups rallied outside the NYC Department of Education HQ.
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California teachers fight to save their union and the schools
March 25, 2015Unionized California teachers are among the many categories of workers nationwide whose unions are under attack by anti-labor lawmakers.
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Yale strike victory celebration looks to the future
February 4, 2015"Today it's your turn to step up to the plate and help other workers without unions organize, just as those unions stood with you 30 years ago."
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Silicon Valley breeding nationwide schools-for-profit scheme
October 2, 2014Nearly every metropolitan area these days has its own wealthy promoters of education "reform." Few areas, however, have as concentrated a group as Silicon Valley.
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U.S. schools more segregated than in 1954
August 28, 2014The new segregation, by class and income, harms students just as the old state-legalized segregation in the Solid South did.
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