schools
Chicago parents organize to keep schools open
March 13, 2013Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Board of Education have closed or taken over dozens of schools every year, targeting African American and Latino neighborhoods.
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A fog of lies surrounding Chicago school closings
March 13, 2013Ninety percent of students affected would be African American, an action that would be another destabilizing blow to African American communities.
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The people have spoken: Save our schools!
February 25, 2013Hundreds of students, teachers, parents, staff members, and allies packed Chicago's Fuller Park Fieldhouse Thursday night.
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Threatened Philly school closings face growing resistance
December 14, 2012The district announced the names of the schools to be shuttered; in the late afternoon a dense crowd of hundreds of protesters massed on the steps of district headquarters.
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Lesson for the day – stop Fat Cats from robbing our schools
November 15, 2012TIFs - or Tax Increment Financing - is a method powerful financial interests have devised to divert public monies to private coffers.
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