Public Education
Rolling one-day strike closes Washington state schools
May 19, 2015Thousands of union school workers in 60 districts across Washington are staging a "rolling one-day walkout" to protest the Republican-controlled State Senate's refusal to fully fund public schools.
Read moreToday in labor history: 200,000 students boycott Chicago public schools
October 22, 2014Civil rights groups organized the boycott and demonstration against segregated schools and inadequate resources for black students.
Read moreArizona voters dump two right-wingers
September 2, 2014The majority of Arizonans were delighted to see the state's incumbent attorney general, Tom Horne, and Superintendent of Public Instruction, John Huppenthal, defeated.
Read moreDespite parent protest, Simeon closes electricity-training class
August 7, 2014On a near perfect summer evening here, July 31, about 75 parents along with a number of students filled the Simeon Career and Technical Education auditorium.
Read moreEducation counter-revolution in England sounds awfully familiar
June 24, 2014The Conservative-led coalition government in the UK has embarked on a "shock therapy" deregulatory binge across the English education sector.
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