Public Education
Bus tour solicits New Yorkers’ priorities for schools
March 22, 2013NEW YORK - After more than a decade of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's corporate restructuring of public education, a coalition of community groups hit the streets to ask New Yorkers, especially parents, what their priorities really were.
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New York City elections hold promise of change
March 21, 2013During the last 20 years of the Giuliani and then Bloomberg administrations, the living standards of the 99 percent have steadily declined, while the wealth of the 1 percent has risen.
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Saving Texas schools
March 14, 2013About 3,000 school workers and their allies rallied at the Capitol in Austin March 11. Buses came from all over the state.
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19 arrested in attempt to stop school closings
March 8, 2013The mood was boisterous and upbeat as some 2,000 demonstrators massed outside Philadelphia School District headquarters in an attempt to stop threatened closing of nearly 30 public schools.
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Chicago teachers educate a nation
September 21, 2012It was nine days that shook Chicago, the 2012 teachers' strike changed the nation.
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