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The Big Jeb Bush Charter School Lie: Why His Florida Education “Miracle” Is Hogwash
The pathway out of poverty these schools were supposed to provide now looks more like a detour to profit-making.
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Haunted by Student Debt to the Grave
People can be pursued for student debt even into their elder years.
US Education Reform and the Maintenance of White Supremacy Through Structural Violence
Scholars and education activists document the racism and segregation of US public schooling over the rise of corporate education reform.
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Oaxaca, Mexico, Faces Police Militarization as Governor Acts to Preempt Education Protests
Unionized teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico, are protesting national education mandates, in the face of growing police militarization.
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Georgia Is Moving Children With Disabilities Into Schools Used During Jim Crow
A DOJ investigation found that Georgia is putting kids with behavioral issues in the same buildings that served Black children decades ago.
California’s Drought and the Politics of Inequality
Individual conservation alone isn't enough to repair the damage in California's drought crisis.
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Four Ways the GOP Wants to Attack Planned Parenthood
Here are just four of the latest ways the anti abortion movement hopes to close them for good.
“Deplorable”: Federal Judge Condemns Texas Detention Centers for Immigrant Families
Republicans are calling on the Obama administration to appeal the ruling.
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ALEC Admits School Vouchers Are for Kids in Suburbia
School vouchers were never about helping poor, at-risk or minority students.
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An Enduring (and False) Welfare Narrative
Where are these welfare programs that people are supposedly living off of?