Education
Pay to (not) play: Coaches cash in with college admissions bribery scam
March 13, 2019A good college can be expensive, especially when you add bribes onto the cost of tuition.
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Budget cuts: Trump fiscal plan is a right-wing wish list
March 12, 2019Plenty of money for the military and the wall, but only cuts for schools or health care.
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Indiana teachers join nationwide movement to save public education
March 11, 2019Tax money meant for public schools has been diverted to a failing charter school system. Indiana teachers are saying enough is enough.
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Judge finds NCAA guilty of illegally capping athletic scholarship values
March 11, 2019NCAA student-athletes generate extraordinary revenue but say they only get modest benefits in return. A judge handed them a partial victory, but still ruled against a free-market approach.
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Oakland teachers’ strike victory: Billionaires won’t determine our kids’ futures
March 5, 2019Along with salary increases, teachers also won a pause on school closures and a moratorium on publicly-funded but privately-run charter schools.
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