N.Y. to slash literacy funding
Though illiteracy here and across the U.S. continues to be a growing social problem, efforts to combat it are under attack by the city and state legislature, under the guise of reigning in runaway spending.
Chicago students walk out to protest education cuts
More than 500 high school students walked out of classrooms at public schools city wide to massive education budget cuts.
Megan Fox to governor, “Don’t terminate our teachers”
Megan Fox fights for public education in a great, new video.
Rallying for more schools, it's a Bronx cheer for Bloomberg
Bronx residents send a message to Bloomberg and the Department of Education: More schools!
Mississippi court rules school violated lesbian student’s rights
The court said Itawamba Agricultural High School officials violated the student's First Amendment rights when it canceled the prom rather than let her attend with her girlfriend.
A teacher speaks her mind
I would hate to think that all of my effort could be cast aside because some standardized test or other incomplete measurement suggested that I was not doing a good job.
Student loan victory
Young people and their parents had two reasons to celebrate yesterday's passage of the sweeping health care reform bill.
March Madness comes with insane price
Everyone who loves college basketball, loves March Madness. But the price is costly and unacceptable.
Obama school plan has pluses but big minuses, teachers and others warn
The administration's education "blueprint" discards some of the No Child Left Behind law's much-criticized features, but keeps or adds others that teachers, their unions and other public school advocates oppose.
Thousands march to save public education
Hundreds of thousands of students, parents, faculty, campus workers and community supporters demonstrated in California and around the country March 4 in a massive protest to save public education.
