Schools are cutting back on expulsions and suspensions, which are doled out disproportionately to minority students. Without adequate funding, though, the new reforms may cause problems of their own.
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Claims That Clinton Lied About Emails Dissolve Under Scrutiny
The media has created a misleading narrative about her honesty.
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Infrastructure: Can We Finally Think Big?
The defining challenge of the next president’s infrastructure agenda will be persuading Congress to come along for the ride.
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The Progressive Tax Reform You’ve Never Heard Of
How ending profit shifting can fix corporate tax cheating and satisfy Republicans
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Putting Family Policy on the Governing Agenda
It’s time we saw support for child care and paid leave as central to both economic growth and family well-being.
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Latino Immigrants Are Changing the Politics of … Nebraska!
Organizing in Omaha and small towns with meatpacking plants is altering politics in this reddest of states.
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A Century of Anti-Abortion Attacks
One hundred years after Margaret Sanger opened the nation’s first birth-control clinic, Republicans are still attacking Planned Parenthood.
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How Clinton Can Put Health-Care Reform Back on Track
More than ever, we need a public option—and other changes—to ensure the ACA achieves its ambitious, far-reaching goals.
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Koch Brothers’ Latest Target: Pope Francis
Better known for their high-dollar political spending, the billionaire Koch brothers have also poured millions into Catholic University’s business school to promote a free-market orthodoxy sharply at odds with the teachings of Pope Francis.
