Tag: education
Making sense of Florida’s nonsensical history curriculum
‘Slavery wasn’t so bad; white men are the real victims’: these are the messages that appear to stem from the right-wing war on history. It’s part of a bigger picture rooted in the politics of fear.
Vox’s student loan ‘expert’ is paid by debt collectors
Kevin Carey’s job is funded by corporations that stand to lose so much from Biden’s cancellation of federal student loans deserves a disclosure from Vox.
Biden to cancel $39 billion in student loans post SCOTUS decision
More than 800,000 borrowers with debts outstanding for more than 20 years could have their student loans discharged.
How students jump started a bold new campaign for debt abolition
In response to these ongoing threats, students are once again taking action.
Right-wing indoctrination in charter schools at taxpayer expense
A “new breed” of charter schools is spreading conservative ideology and Christian nationalism.
Sanders, Jayapal re-up plan to make college tuition-free by taxing Wall...
Sanders' office called the proposal "the most substantial expansion of higher education access since the Great Society and President Lyndon B. Johnson's Higher Education Act of 1965."
GOP resolution to block student debt relief would have ‘ruinous impact,’...
"Taking back student debt relief already delivered to public service workers is reckless, cruel, unjust, and un-American."
Republicans want to defund our libraries
Claiming to protect children, Republicans are going after libraries and librarians instead of the police, gun manufacturers, and actual child sexual abusers.
Why there is a growing student absentee rate—and how community schools...
Experts call for cultivating better student relationships and providing families with more supports—exactly what the community schools approach is all about.
The real reason Disney is defying DeSantis
A corporation does not have morals—it has a bottom line. Disney’s lawsuit against Florida is more about being able to reap profits while underpaying workers than it is about protecting LGBTQ communities.
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When do the ‘primal, profit-driven forces of nature’—racked with buyer’s remorse—dethrone or defang MAGA...
If you credit mass buyers’ remorse by hoodwinked MAGA voters, that goes double for flabbergasted tycoons once open to disruption (and donor payoffs) but now bullied by the allegedly pro-business browbeater.
Outrage in Massachusetts after ICE detains high school student on way to volleyball practice
Milford residents demand answers and justice after ICE agents detain 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes da Silva, sparking statewide protests and national criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Billions in clean energy projects canceled amid Republican tax bill and fossil fuel agenda
Clean energy investments are vanishing as the Trump administration’s tax plan and rollback of Biden-era climate policies threaten America’s transition to renewables.
‘Another aid massacre’: Israeli military kills dozens near privatized Gaza food site
For the third consecutive day, Israeli forces fired on Palestinians seeking food at a controversial U.S.-backed aid site, raising international outcry and renewed calls for accountability amid a spiraling humanitarian catastrophe.
Greta Thunberg and 11 other volunteers set out on mercy mission to Gaza
A crowd of supporters gathered at the port with Palestinian flags to encourage the 12-person crew. The mission is sponsored by the Freedom Flotilla organization.