Amid an overheated housing market that has sent San Francisco evictions soaring, the city has stepped in to protect schoolchildren and teachers from landing on the street.
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The Argument for Tuition-Free College
Soaring tuitions and student loan debt are placing higher education beyond the reach of many American students. It’s time to make college free and accessible to all.
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School Closures: A Blunt Instrument
Shuttering “failed schools” can have painful consequences for children and neighborhoods.
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The Great Diversion
Charter schools may or may not improve student outcomes—but they divert funds from other public schools.
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Chicago Teachers Join with Fight for 15 and Black Lives Matter in One-Day Strike
Labor leaders and activists unite in opposition to funding cuts, and see a broader fight against anti-union measures pushed by the state’s Republican governor.
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North Carolina Educators Fight Deportations of Central American Students
Teachers across the state are uniting in their call to end the raids, which have disrupted the education of immigrant students.
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North Carolina Educators Fight Deportations of Central American Students
Teachers across the state are uniting in their call to end the raids, which have disrupted the education of immigrant students.
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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.
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Campaign Challenge: Fix the African American Student Loan Crisis
Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have proposed plans to ease the crippling debt burdening African American students, but their plans diverge in predictable ways.
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College, the Skills Gap, and the Student Loan Crisis
A conversation with economist Marshall Steinbaum on how we should rethink inequality and higher education.Â
