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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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Tucson bans Mexican-American studies, students walk out
January 26, 2012On Monday, after the Tucson, Ariz. school district banned its acclaimed Mexican-American studies program, hundreds of high school students throughout the city walked out of their schools in protest.
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State of the Union address, DREAM Act Undocumented youth respond
January 25, 2012In his State of the Union address, the president described the challenges faced by undocumented youth: many of them are already responding favorably: "I'm a DREAMer and I believe myself to be an American. I have...
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Conn. vigil remembers slain youth
January 19, 2012Young people organized a candlelight vigil to remember the 34 people who were killed in 2011, and to highlight the link between joblessness and violence.
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College in the Rustbelt
January 4, 2012Ever wonder what it's like to go to college in a declining city?
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