By bringing its case to Trump’s NLRB, New York’s teachers union could threaten charter teachers’ rights in a host of states.
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How Unpaid Internships Reinforce the Racial Wealth Gap
When discussing racism in the United States, few statistics are more revealing than the racial wealth gap. According to the Economic Policy Institute, median household wealth for white families is 12 times higher than that of black families. This disparity makes it much harder for black households to weather crises like unemployment or medical emergencies, […]
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Los Angeles’s Schools Strike Was a Teachable Moment for Students
The scenes unfolding outside students’ schools gave them daily glimpses of their teachers’ commitment and the power of collective action.
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Parents Must Shut Down the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Building an educational justice movement to protect African American students has to begin in Pre-K.
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‘How Long Will the LA Teachers Strike Last?’ May Be the Wrong Question
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.
