Tag: public education
Education Department changes are leaving millions of vulnerable students at risk
Moving special education services and civil rights enforcement to other federal agencies has left families wondering what's next.
The conservative ‘plan’ to dismantle public schools is entering the home...
The Republican Party’s crusade to cap or abolish local property taxes is the latest tactic in their effort to drain funding from public education.
$380 million in funding cuts to one of the most successful...
“Every day, there’s yet another abuse.” The wanton attack on public schools is one of America’s biggest tragedies.
How the Trump administration wields the federal government’s power over public...
With the help of the U.S. Supreme Court and congressional Republicans, Trump is turning public education into the great unequalizer.
Trump administration resumes student loan collections, threatening millions with garnished wages...
Restarting federal loan garnishments and ending relief programs, the Trump administration advances a sweeping overhaul that critics say punishes struggling borrowers and deepens a national crisis.
Chicago teachers want to transform their city into a ‘system of...
Headbutting and friction continue in the battle of big ideas vs. entrenched leadership.
Private fortunes vs. public education
That era of growing equality and expanding public education would start fading in the 1970s. Over recent years, a new U.S. Senate report makes clear, that fade has only intensified.
Community schools can revitalize the neighborhoods around them
The transformative approach to school improvement is a catalyst for community revival.
The right wing is pumping out critical race theory attacks to...
“No one deserves the school I went to,” says Celia Gottlieb.
Gottlieb is currently enrolled in Middlebury College and...
Diane Ravitch: Biden’s pick for education secretary must overturn DeVos’s attack...
“He’s not Betsy DeVos, and every educator in America, or almost every educator, will be thrilled about that.”
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.