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Suit filed to stop Michigan’s emergency manager law
April 2, 2013What is happening in Michigan "is a threat to everyone in this nation," said Al Sharpton. "If you get away with it in Detroit, you can get away with it all over the nation."
Read moreThousands rally against school closings, vow “the fight has just begun”
March 28, 2013Thousands of teachers, parents, students and city residents protested the announcement by Chicago Board of Education that it will close 54 schools effecting 30,000 students.
Read moreBus 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.
Read moreCliff diving – new normal for Pennsylvania higher ed?
March 20, 2013There is an adage that goes, "once is an accident, twice is a trend." With regards to the cliff funding, that adage is being perpetrated.
Read moreUniversity of Wisconsin takes off its cap
March 20, 2013What a rat race! No, I don't mean the auto industry or Silicon Valley, or even the vicious corporate American scene. I mean academia.
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