After a lengthy battle, California teachers have won the right to form a union in their online charter school network.
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Can Affordable Housing Help Retain Teachers?
With pay and benefits on the decline, districts from San Francisco to Newark aim to attract teachers through subsidized housing.Â
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Students Nationwide to March for Debt Relief and a $15 Minimum on Campus
Inspired by Bernie Sanders’s call for a million students to march on Washington, thousands of students, faculty, and workers are demanding debt cancellation and $15 minimum wage on campus.
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The Mizzou Scandal Shows Why Black Colleges Are Still Vital
University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe’s resignation Monday underscores how even in 2015, majority-white institutions remain potentially unsafe places for black students. The events leading up to Wolfe’s resignation-the racist verbal assaults on campus, the swastika written in feces in a residential hall, and ultimately the administration’s inadequate response to students’ concerns-are all too familiar […]
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Rubio’s Plan: Keep the Poor out of Higher Education
Born into the working class? That’s where you belong, says the presidential hopeful.
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Why Black Colleges and Universities Still Matter
The continuing case for America’s historically black colleges and universities.Â
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Judge Issues Restraining Order After an L.A. Charter Network Interfered with Teachers Union Drive
Drama has escalated for teachers organizing at the Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, the largest charter network in Los Angeles. Since the teachers, organizing with United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), first went public with their union drive in March, they allege the administration has erected illegal barriers to organizing, including intimidating their employees. (Alliance denies these […]
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Challenges to John King’s Integration Pilot
In August I wrote about the Obama administration’s record on school integration, and while it’s been mostly disappointing, there have been some encouraging recent developments. Specifically, the administration has moved to include diversity as a funding priority in more of its smaller grant programs. At the end of 2014, New York’s education commissioner, John King, […]
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Why the Administration Needs a Bolder Plan on School Integration
Diversity initiatives like Technical Assistance for Student Assignment Plans can’t succeed without a larger federal strategy to combat segregation in schools. Â
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On New Philanthropy, Education Reform, and Eli Broad’s Big Plan for L.A. Schools
The reach, and limits, of billionaire-funded education reform.Â
