Teachers across the state are uniting in their call to end the raids, which have disrupted the education of immigrant students.
Rachel M. Cohen
Rachel M. Cohen is a freelance journalist based in Washington, D.C., and a former American Prospect writing fellow. Follow her on Twitter @rmc031
Posted inEducation in America
Can Charlotte-Mecklenburg Desegregate Its Schools … Again?
Charlotte led the way in school integration during the 1970s and 1980s, but now faces deep divisions over plans to diversify its increasingly segregated schools.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Senate Bill Targets Corporations Moving Overseas to Dodge Taxes
Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, has introduced a new bill that would force deserting corporations to pay taxes before they head overseas-The Pay What You Owe Before You Go Act of 2016. U.S. multinational corporations have been evading paying U.S. taxes by renouncing their corporate citizenship and formally becoming formal foreign corporations (though […]
Posted inLaw and Justice
Future of Abortion Access Remains Unclear After Supreme Court Oral Arguments
The decision over whether Texas’s abortion restrictions constitute an undue burden on a woman’s right to choose will likely come down to which side persuaded Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Oral Arguments Open in Supreme Court Challenge to Texas Law
On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the most significant reproductive rights case to reach the Supreme Court in a generation. The outcome of the case will, to put it plainly, determine whether a woman’s constitutional right to access safe and legal abortion is merely theoretical, […]
Posted inEducation in America
College, the Skills Gap, and the Student Loan Crisis
A conversation with economist Marshall Steinbaum on how we should rethink inequality and higher education.
Posted inElection Night Blog
Why We Need a Renewed National Discussion on School Integration
Yesterday the Albert Shanker Institute, a think tank affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), hosted a panel discussion on school and housing segregation. Featuring Kimberly Goyette, a sociologist at Temple University, Amy Ellen Schwartz, an economist at NYU, Amy Stuart Wells, a sociologist at Columbia, and Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the […]
Posted inEducation in America
Detroit Sick-Out Critics Frustrated They Can’t Blame it on the Teachers Union
For the past several months, teachers in Detroit have been organizing to protest their unsafe and underfunded public schools. These working conditions, the teachers argue, negatively impact both their ability to teach and students’ ability to learn. And students are indeed struggling: Detroit public school students consistently earn the lowest reading and math test scores […]
Posted inEducation in America
School Desegregation Lawsuit Threatens Charters
A provocative civil-rights case in Minnesota could influence school integration efforts nationally.
Posted inEducation in America
Charged with Firing Teachers for Organizing, a Chicago Charter Network Settles
The deal, which Urban Prep agreed to this week, represents the largest unfair labor practice settlement for charter teachers to date.
