Tag: education
30,000 LA teachers ‘strike ready’ as district refuses to spend $1.86...
"A strike is not a first resort for anyone. It's a last resort – especially for teachers who are asked to do more with less every day. And enough is enough."
Elizabeth Warren launches investigation into sudden collapse of for-profit college chain
Warren and several other senators demanded the Department take immediate steps to aid and protect students, veterans, and taxpayers in the wake of the significant collapse.
Trump administration releases new rules on school nutrition standards, rolls back...
Last week marked the first of many rollbacks the Trump administration and the USDA are planning on the way the USDA administers school lunch programs.
‘Time for a jubilee!:’ US student loan debt hits record $1.46...
The amount of U.S. student loan debt has more than doubled since 2009 and now sits at a record $1.47 trillion.
How Betsy DeVos does the Koch brothers’ bidding
What’s largely been overlooked behind all the lurid headlines and endless insults are all the ways in which officials like DeVos are quietly at work continuing to use our tax money to advance a deeply troubling agenda.
Teacher strike threat backs off ExxonMobil
Within hours of the union vote to strike, the company’s exemption bids were off the Board of Industry and Commerce’s agenda.
The Christian vacation camp where kids are taught by notorious climate...
And what are they being taught? Conspiracy theories about the United Nations (U.N.) and how climate change is a hoax.
Education wave that began in West Virginia sweeps nation
Chances are, that if teachers are fed up, many more others are too.
How teachers might end up beating back the Koch brothers’ plan...
“Even before election day, we’ve already won because we’ve exposed the corruption of the Republican Party. There’s no hiding behind the curtains anymore.”
How the wealthy destroy public schools, one gift at a time
They’re certainly doing a good job of burning down public education.
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Grow your own food—and a kinder world: How veganic farming can turn your garden...
More than just growing food without animal products, veganic farming reimagines agriculture as a space where humans, wildlife, and even soil microbes can coexist and flourish together, offering a bold and compassionate alternative to traditional organic methods.
Pendulum justice: The greater MAGA’s orgy of outrages, the more change looms
Under duress, wealth shares its spoils,/ But never forsakes its octopus coils.
Israel linked to majority of global civilian deaths from explosive weapons in 2025
A new international monitoring report found that more than 22,600 civilians were killed by explosive weapons last year, with Israeli armed forces accounting for 56 percent of recorded fatalities worldwide.
The Trump administration aims to penalize disabled adults who live with their families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients.
Decades of research link pesticide use around homes, farms to childhood cancer
A new comprehensive meta-analysis published last month in the International Journal of Cancer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln analyzed findings from 88 epidemiological studies spanning more than 40 years.