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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 …

The Other ALECs’ K-12 Education Agenda Exposed
For over 30 years, corporate America and its allies on both sides of the political aisle have carried out an assault on US workers, pushing down wages, slashing benefits …

Texas GOP Declares: “No More Teaching of ‘Critical Thinking Skills’ in Texas Public Schools“
The Texas GOP's hidden curriculum against critical thinking and other educational threats to authoritarianism is now part of its official platform.

Top Five Ways Republicans Have Turned Washington, DC, Into Their Legislative Playground
Rand Paul is just the last of the long line of members of Congress who mistakenly believe it is their place to tell Washington residents what they can and …

Selling Out New York City’s Public Schools: Mayor Bloomberg, David Steiner and the Politics of Corporate “Leadership”
Politicians, anti-public intellectuals and conservative-leaning media pundits no longer ask what kind of education is needed in a democratic society.

In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis
We need a new language for understanding public education as formative for democratic institutions.