University of Wisconsin takes off its cap
What a rat race! No, I don't mean the auto industry or Silicon Valley, or even the vicious corporate American scene. I mean academia.
A fog of lies surrounding Chicago school closings
Ninety percent of students affected would be African American, an action that would be another destabilizing blow to African American communities.
The people have spoken: Save our schools!
Hundreds of students, teachers, parents, staff members, and allies packed Chicago's Fuller Park Fieldhouse Thursday night.
Threatened Philly school closings face growing resistance
The district announced the names of the schools to be shuttered; in the late afternoon a dense crowd of hundreds of protesters massed on the steps of district headquarters.
Public education under attack, say Michigan school superintendents
Republicans are shamefully using the lame duck legislative session to ram through extremist legislation to overhaul public education in radical and dangerous ways.
SOA Watch meets with White House deputy advisor: Lessons learned
Denis McDonough, deputy national security adviser to President Barack Obama, met with a delegation from the SOA Watch movement here Nov. 13.
Lesson for the day – stop Fat Cats from robbing our schools
TIFs - or Tax Increment Financing - is a method powerful financial interests have devised to divert public monies to private coffers.
Today in history: 200,000 students boycotted Chicago public schools
On October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups organized Freedom Day, a mass boycott and demonstration against segregated schools and inadequate resources for black students.
Beware: "Pro-child" groups press corporate schools agenda
The Change.org petition site recently dropped the misleadingly named "StudentsFirst" and "Stand for Children" as paying clients.This came after public pressure including a counter-petition by a Chicago teacher.
Tulsa implements ALEC anti-public-school agenda
The city of Tulsa has consistently pushed to cut funding for projects that benefit the taxpayers.
