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Today in history: 200,000 students boycotted Chicago public schools

October 22, 2012 By Barbara Russum

On October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups organized Freedom Day, a mass boycott and demonstration against segregated schools and inadequate resources for black students.

Calif. ballot measure would fund public education

October 19, 2012 By Marilyn Bechtel

In a scenario possible only under California's bizarre budgeting process, the state's general services budget is now in the hands of a ballot measure to temporarily tax high personal incomes to fund education.

School vs. football: the fuss over Cardale Jones

October 11, 2012 By Neil Parthun

Normally the thoughts and complaints of third-string freshman quarterbacks who have had nonexistent playing time would not be news.

Students, teachers protest university privatization, tuition hikes

October 5, 2012 By Steve McAllister

A new coalition at the University of Oregon rallied and marched Oct. 3 against rising tuition and plans to privatize governance of the university.

Today in labor history: Eisenhower enforces racial integration in Little Rock

September 24, 2012 By Special to People’s World

Orval Faubus tried to prevent schools in Little Rock from integrating, despite the fact that the Supreme Court had ordered the desegregation of public schools three years prior.