Progressive economist Gerald Epstein discusses how the Federal Reserve can step in to save schools.
Education & Youth
Activists say removing police will make schools safer for students of color and free up cash for COVID safety measures.
All over the country, school districts have been utterly abandoned.
Renaming the school to honor Lewis “will serve as an inspiration to our students,” one board member said.
The push to reopen has been denounced by education advocates as an attempt to weaken the public education system.
Turning schools into hotbeds of infection is in line with Betsy DeVos’s plan to undermine the public school system.
While kids are less likely to get sick from COVID-19, risks of being hospitalized or dying from the disease still exist.
Sociology departments must end their role as pipelines to police academies.
Over the past week, educators protested against a fall reopening in Arizona, Texas, Mississippi, and elsewhere.
Many of the nation’s largest school districts do not reach the threshold for reopening that epidemiologists recommend.