Tag: Public school
The defeat of a school voucher program reveals the truth within...
The momentum for education savings accounts is increasing across the country, and public education advocates say they will endanger neighborhood schools.
A school choice nightmare: Families getting government funding to switch from...
The harrowing story of a Maine family shows the potential perils families face when they transfer to privately run schools that are less subject to government oversight.
School vouchers have been a disaster—now advocates are trying to rename...
What you need to know about education savings accounts, a kind of “super-voucher.”
An unlikely city in the South could be home to a...
Advocates for school improvement in Jackson, Mississippi, want investments in education infrastructure, not more charter schools and privatization.
Parents like their public schools, no matter how much the charter...
Branding public schools as “failed” institutions is more about politics than education.
Saving our schools starts with spending less on the military
Imagine if we invested in them rather than war.
Betsy DeVos is gone, but her education agenda is rolling out...
Her efforts to privatize public schools are being rolled out in state legislatures across the country.
Yes, schools can improve; Here’s how
Faced with two utterly misguided directions for education policy, some argue for a “centrist solution,” as if meeting in the middle of two bad ideas can somehow produce something good.
Why We Need Democratic Socialism to Fix Our Educational System
Children aren't products to be bought and sold. The profit motive should end at the front door of the public school.
Are Private Schools Better than Public?
Our public school system may be the best in the world. However, poverty, coupled with the fact that the people in charge are ignoring facts and turning instead to the corporate profit-seekers, is debilitating to the system.
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The perilous path from western domination to de-dollarization
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Trump World 2025
The most terrifying war that Trump is planning is his attack on America.
Senate Dems want to cancel all student lunch debt—a ‘term so absurd that it...
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman said the aim of the bill is to "stop humiliating kids and penalizing hunger."
Climate campaigners decry ‘absolutely horrendous’ brutality against protesters at fed summit
"We have no choice but to take direct action to put our bodies on the line because petitions, sign-waving, and chanting—we tried that for the past 50 years and it hasn't worked, and we're out of time," said one arrested activist.
Switzerland loses 10% of glacier volume in just two years
“Glaciers are the ambassadors of climate change. They make it very clear what is happening out there because they respond in a very sensitive way to warming temperatures.”