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Education
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Feds Spent $3.3 Billion Fueling Charter Schools but No One Knows What It’s Really Bought
There's no comprehensive list of the charter schools that have received these funds.
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Higher Education Lobby Quietly Joins For-Profit Schools to Roll Back Tighter Rules
Traditional colleges and universities have become unlikely allies of the beleaguered for-profit industry.
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French Peacekeeper Abuse Scandal Fits an Old Pattern of Impunity
The news of the CAR report makes it clear that the culture of impunity around peacekeeping still has not changed.
As the Obama Administration Seeks More Funding for Charter Schools, Questions Raised Over Billions Spent
A report claims charter schools are spending billions with no oversight.
The Real Reason the End of the Embargo Will Unleash the Cuban Tiger
Cuba's embargo-era policies positioned it to become the next development success story.
State of Emergency in Baltimore Should Continue
Indeed, a state of emergency with a domestic Marshall Plan like design should be declared in many other urban and rural communities in our nation.
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Wine Over Brine
Developers want to warehouse fracked gas in the heart of New York's wine country.
Black Lives Matter: Let the Students Speak, Let Her Teach
I thank you for following your educational mission and engaging in this humanistic endeavor while valuing “intelligent dissent [over] passive agreement,” to quote Bertrand Russell.
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Boston School Bus Drivers Battle Racism and Privatization
This particular union marks the spot where organized labor meets oppressed and marginalized people where they are.
Garfield High School Teacher Heather Robison’s Conscientious Test Objector Declaration
With so many students having opted out of the Common Core tests, the teachers are no longer being asked to administer the examu2014a huge victory in this struggle against …