Public Schools

Schools in poor neighborhoods turned into community schools - combining rigorous instruction with a broad social support system.

The Feds are cheerleaders, as the Walmart Family, Reed Hastings and others are using billions to turn public schools into private charters.

Schools need a complete transformation in what and how students learn - not the Common Core State Standards and standardized tests.

As Chicago protests continue, the teachers union has an opportunity to make powerful demands for racial and economic justice.

As students of color continue to face police violence in the classroom, we must ask, why are police in public schools?

Critical pedagogy is much more than a set of teaching strategies. It may be our greatest defense against totalitarianism.

Nearly 1000 marched against the “philanthrocapitalist's” plan for unregulated charter schools.

Bronzeville has exactly one community high school left. This is the school the hunger strikers are trying to save.

Education activists are entering the 19th day of a hunger strike to save Dyett High School.

Despite public urging for adequate public education funding, Republican legislators chose to put more money into the private voucher school system.