The walkout has led to a long overdue assessment of charter schools and forced a reconsideration of how much we are willing to invest in public education.
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Privileging the Privileged: Harvard’s Real Problem
Despite the widely held belief that elite colleges look only at grades and test scores, ranking people on that basis, nothing could be further from the truth.
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LA Teachers’ Potential ‘Meta-Strike’ Reveals Battle Lines in U.S. Public Education War
Superintendent Austin Beutner and his allies have made it clear they do not believe that the LA Unified School District in its current incarnation is worth investing in—or even preserving.
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Los Angeles Teachers Poised to Strike
The union in the nation’s second largest school district is calling for an end to the privatization of public schools.
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How Schools Can Follow the Money That Should Be Theirs
New databases reveal the tax revenues siphoned off by corporate abatements that would otherwise be funding public schools.
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Unions, Millennials, and Their Ostensibly Liberal Elders
Slate and Grinnell College seek to bust unions, while Congress has forgotten to pay its interns.
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The Con in Foxconn Wisconsin
How economic impact studies justify the transfer of wealth from taxpayers to corporations
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Republicans’ ‘Tax Reform 2.0’ Would Be (Another) Giveaway to the Rich
By expanding the scope of 529 savings accounts, the GOP gives the wealthy another way to cut their taxes.
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The Teacher Paradox: Educators Organize Under Fire
The more that right-wing groups spend to drive teachers from their unions, the harder educators fight back—and the more they are running for office.
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Photos from the North Carolina Teachers Rally
The movement for better pay for teachers that ignited in West Virginia, where thousands of teachers went on strike, and has swept through states like Oklahoma and Arizona, reached North Carolina on Wednesday. Wearing “red 4 ed” T-shirts, an estimated 20,000 teachers and public education supporters filled the streets of Raleigh and marched to the […]