Education
30,000 L.A. school support staffers to strike; teachers refuse to cross picket line
March 17, 2023This majority-woman workforce—cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians, and special ed assistants—make an average of only $25,000 a year.
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Lunch ladies strike after Hastings, Minn., school board stonewalls contract negotiations
March 6, 2023Superintendent gets $35,000 raise; food service workers offered 35 cents.
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Lost Cause 2.0? DeSantis and Republicans inspired by racist Confederate history re-writes
February 15, 2023Ron DeSantis, Florida's MAGA Republican governor, is reprising “the biggest historical fiction ever.”
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Teach Black history – don’t ban it!
February 10, 2023Politicians fire teachers and ban books, but more and more Americans are standing up against this effort to erase our history.
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Striking Temple graduate worker: University’s ‘progressive’ reputation doesn’t extend to labor relations
February 9, 2023Facing pay cuts, 48-hour workweeks, and outrageous tuition bills, grad workers were left with no choice but to strike.
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