Tag: education
Arizona had a plan to make the wealthy pay for education....
“We’re going out to the zoo, we’re going to go to grocery stores, libraries, soccer games, we’re going to ask families, all of whom supported us during this movement, to join us.”
Four Black female judges use their courtrooms to break the school-to-prison...
Criminal justice is not the only focus of the program. The judges discuss making healthy life choices and maintaining a positive image.
Federal judge rules against Education Department in student borrower protection cases
"This is such an important win for student borrowers and anyone who cares about a government that operates under the rule of law."
Back to school and straight to the picket line
The empowering effect of this strike is being felt by first-year and veteran teachers alike.
In a historic move, Los Angeles educators vote to strike
With corporations on a warpath to privatize schools, the future of public education is at stake across the country, and Los Angeles is ground zero for this struggle.
Books, not magazines: Outcry grows over DeVos plan to divert federal...
DeVos’s plan would use federal Student Support and Academic Enrichment grants to pay for firearms and to train educators in their use.
NYU School of Medicine announces free tuition for current and future...
"They walk out of here unencumbered, looking at a future where they can do what their passion tells them, which is to help people live better quality lives."
ALEC Sets the table for gerrymandering, union busting, protecting fossil fuels,...
A breakdown of ALEC’s menu of policy proposals at the New Orleans conference.
How Native American children benefit from trauma-informed schools
Students in these communities are disproportionately affected by trauma. When they act out, adults with training ask, “Is there anything I can do to help you?” rather than “Why are you acting this way?”
Why the new push for charter schools should anger progressives
Surveys find that Americans have increased confidence in public schools while support for charter schools has dropped by double digit percentages among Democrats and Republicans.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.