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Tennessee Republicans Push a Bill That Would Circumvent Marriage Age Limits
The bill would create a new class of marriage for “one man” and “one woman.”
More Book Bans Sought in 2021 Than Any Other Point in Past 20 Years, Group Says
More than 700 challenges were made across the U.S. last year, affecting the availability of nearly 1,600 books.
Socialists Take Up Critical Fight for Universal Child Care in the United States
Child care is an ineluctable social need, and has become only more so due to systematic inequality and impoverishment.
GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Prevent Students From Learning About Reconstruction
Guardians of the status quo have always sought to hide Reconstruction’s unprecedented advancements for Black people.
Right-Wing Book Censorship Is an Attack on the Minds of Children
The perennial problem of too few resources for schools is now joined by a weaponized opposition to learning itself.
Colorado Is on the Verge of Passing Free Pre-K for All
The state is creating a new agency as part of plans to offer nearly universal preschool in 2023.
Higher Education Is Now a Battlefield Between Workers and Corporatization
“Power Despite Precarity” offers a case study of how educators in the California State University system built power.
Fear-Based “Parental Bills of Rights” Are a Right-Wing Siege on Public Education
Many educators and advocates are rising to the challenge of multi-pronged attacks on public sex and race education.
Minneapolis Teachers Strike to Bring Power Back to the Community
Smaller class sizes, improved health care, mental health supports and competitive pay are central to teachers' demands.
A Movement to Defend Pensions Sparked an Educator Uprising in Puerto Rico
February saw the largest teachers’ work stoppage in the last decade in Puerto Rico. Educators are not letting up yet.