Public Schools

Teachers, workers and activists hope to pressure Chicago to abandon plans to close 61 schools.

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 …

Superstorm Sandy exposes flawed priorities in public education.

Recent events in the central Arizona town of Casa Grande show the hand of private corrections corporations reaching into the classroom.

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 …

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 …

With school budgets cut to the bone, every dollar counts, and each absent child represents lost state funding.

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 …

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 …

The Texas GOP's hidden curriculum against critical thinking and other educational threats to authoritarianism is now part of its official platform.