Students in juvenile justice facilities often don’t have access to classes needed to complete even their freshman year.
Education & Youth
Thanks to grassroots pressure, the city agreed to bring on more nurses and limit class size.
After 36 years of emphasis on testing, educators are realizing the importance of arts in creating engaged students.
The Education Department was fined $100,000 for violating an order to stop collecting payments from defrauded students.
Gatto envisioned an education system that placed freedom and justice above technology and efficiency.
Teachers are demanding more counselors, nurses, librarians and social workers in historically underserved schools.
Some educators are abandoning scare tactics and turning to harm reduction.
Deploying surveillance technologies will exacerbate the disproportionate punishments faced by marginalized students.
The U.S. is the only UN member that has refused to embrace the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
It is far past time to end the school-to-prison pipeline that starts in early childhood.