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Teaching Tolerance hosts webinar with “New Jim Crow” author Michelle Alexander
September 25, 2014Released in 2010, "The New Jim Crow" outlines the use of the justice system in the United States as a form of racial control that especially impacts young African American males.
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Despite 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.
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Chicagoans take to the streets against school cuts
July 23, 2014The meeting came on the heels of the announcement that CPS was cutting over $50 million from neighborhood schools and diverting it to politically connected charter school.
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Teachers unions to Education Secretary Duncan: Leave!
July 18, 2014The AFT convention has a blunt message for Education Secretary Arne Duncan: You flunk the test of helping the nation's schools and kids, so leave.
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At AFT meet, energized resistance to attacks on education
July 17, 2014An energized resistance to ongoing attacks on education was on display at this year's American Federation of Teachers national convention in Los Angeles.
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