News Analysis | Education & Youth How the Billionaire Kingpins of School Privatization Got Stopped in Their Own Backyard A unique coalition in Little Rock, Arkansas, is pushing back hard on a Walton family-funded attempt at a charter takeover. By Kali Holloway , AlterNet September 8, 2015 Truthout
News | Education & Youth Small Group Goes to Great Lengths to Block Homeschooling Regulation The efforts of one lobbying group has thwarted efforts to monitor homeschooled kids. By Jessica Huseman , ProPublica September 5, 2015 Truthout
Interview | Education & Youth Chicago Hunger Strikers Challenge Rahm Emanuel’s Push to Privatize Schools Education activists are entering the 19th day of a hunger strike to save Dyett High School. By Juan González & Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! September 4, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Education & Youth Back to ALEC, Back to (Private) School Despite public urging for adequate public education funding, Republican legislators chose to put more money into the private voucher school system. By Chris Taylor , PRWatch September 1, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Education & Youth Hungry for Justice: Chicago Residents Go on Hunger Strike for Education Why is there a hunger strike generating headlines on the South side of Chicago? By Katie Osgood & Kelly Hayes , TransformativeSpaces August 30, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Education & Youth Five Questions Every Presidential Candidate Needs to Answer About Education Forget accountability. This time around, the candidates need to address inequality. By Paul Thomas , AlterNet August 23, 2015 Truthout
Interview | Education & Youth Court Rejects Rule on Labeling Goods Containing “Conflict Minerals” Since 1998, more than 5 million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo. By Juan González & Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! August 21, 2015 Truthout
News | Education & Youth Participatory Budgeting: An Economy for the 99% Can budgets and even the federal reserve be brought under public control? By Laura Flanders , GRITtv August 19, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Education & Youth Throwing Public Education Under the Bus Today's fee frenzy is a race to nowhere. By Jim Hightower , OtherWords August 16, 2015 Truthout
News Analysis | Education & Youth 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. By Deborah Keisch & Tim Scott , LandscapesofViolence August 2, 2015 Truthout