Education
Florida gov. vetoes anti-teacher bill
April 19, 2010After massive protests by teachers, parents and other public school advocates, Florida's Republican Gov. Charlie Crist defied members of his own party by vetoing legislation that would have eliminated tenure for teachers and gutted community-based input...
Read moreA demand grows in Brooklyn: fund kids, not bombs
April 16, 2010Local residents filled the library at Brooklyn Tech High School to see how the oversized Pentagon budget is draining resources from their community.
Read moreThree grim tales from the Big Apple
April 13, 2010Ranked third or fourth richest city in the world, will New York tell its young generation that it cannot provide shelter, or classrooms, or even transportation to school?
Read moreN.Y. to slash literacy funding
April 9, 2010Though 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.
Read moreMegan Fox to governor, “Don’t terminate our teachers”
April 8, 2010Megan Fox fights for public education in a great, new video.
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