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Minnesota raises state minimum wage; teachers say hike will benefit kids

April 17, 2014 By Barb Kucera

Joined by legislators, advocates, and Minnesotans from across the state, Gov. Mark Dayton signed a bill into law raising Minnesota's minimum wage for the first time since 2005.

Do we need public education?

March 18, 2014 By Beatrice Lumpkin

The public pays for charter schools through their taxes, has no input into their educational practices. Unlike Chicago public schools, neither parents nor community control anything a charter school does.

AFT exposes for-profit charter school industry

March 6, 2014 By PAI

AFT is launching a campaign to expose the for-profit charter school industry as more interested in profits for its CEOs and stockholders than it is in teaching kids.

UIC stonewalling forces faculty strike

February 19, 2014 By Evlynn Wier

For the past 18 months, University of Illinois Chicago faculty have been negotiating for a livable salary for full-time lecturers.

“Reds At The Blackboard”: More positive view of today’s Communist teachers

January 22, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky

More historians are beginning to paint a more objective, balanced, and positive picture of the role of the CPUSA in the U.S. labor movement.