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Chicago Closes 50 Public Schools, Spends $100 Million in Taxpayer Funds on Private College Stadium
Activists say national union leadership needs to give more support to Black and Latino working class families fighting school closures.
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Education Reform in the New Jim Crow Era
What do the war on drugs and market-oriented education reform have in common?
More than 100 Arrested Protesting Mass School Closings In Chicago
Teachers, workers and activists hope to pressure Chicago to abandon plans to close 61 schools.
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The Ghettoization of Public Education
Education is a recession-proof industry that will always be in high demand, but the rush to privatize it could destroy public schools and take the middle class down with …
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Losing Time or Doing Time: Drowning Public Education in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy
Superstorm Sandy exposes flawed priorities in public education.
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Corrections Corporation of America Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students
Recent events in the central Arizona town of Casa Grande show the hand of private corrections corporations reaching into the classroom.
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Henry A. Giroux: Can Democratic Education Survive in a Neoliberal Society?
Hedge fund managers now sit on school boards across the country doing everything in their power to eliminate public schools and punish unionized teachers who do not support charter …
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Vote Scheduled on Chicago Teachers’ Contract
Eight hundred teachersu2019 union delegates are scheduled to vote Tuesday on whether to end a public schools strike, now in its seventh day, that has left 350,000 students without …
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Should Kids Go to Jail for Skipping School?
With school budgets cut to the bone, every dollar counts, and each absent child represents lost state funding.
Corporations Sell Longer Day, Chicago Teachers Aren’t Buying
Teachers and labor activists nationally are watching high drama unfold in Chicago, where teachers have challenged u201cMayor 1%u201d Rahm Emanuel with a stunning 90 percent vote to authorize a …