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Today in labor history: 200,000 students boycott Chicago public schools
October 22, 2014Civil rights groups organized the boycott and demonstration against segregated schools and inadequate resources for black students.
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“Nuclear option” used against Philly teachers
October 10, 2014News stories have documented the ravaging of the district's finances by local banks and out-of-town educational consulting companies.
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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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Reynoldsburg, Ohio teachers strike continues as Board of Education digs in
October 1, 2014Teachers in the small suburban community of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, returned to the picket line for their second week of striking.
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Teaching Tolerance hosts webinar with “New Jim Crow” author Michelle Alexander
September 25, 2014Released in 2010, "The New Jim Crow" outlines the use of the justice system in the United States as a form of racial control that especially impacts young African American males.
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