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Thousands of Oakland Teachers Just Went On Strike. They Want More Than A Pay Raise.
They’re also demanding more support staff, smaller class sizes, and more oversight of charter schools.
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Betsy DeVos Is Being Sued By 17 States Over For-Profit College Rules
The states' attorneys general suing the Trump administration say the Education Department's refusal to enforce a regulation punishing predatory career programs "leaves students vulnerable to exploitation and fraud."
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How Privatization Cuts Us In Two, While Public Institutions Make Us A Better People
We’ve become a nation of profit-makers versus the struggling middle/lower classes. Yet while most people looking to make big money disparage public systems as inefficient, wasteful and inferior, privatization is not the solution – it is the problem.
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The Left is Losing the War on Education. Here’s How We Can Win Again.
As voucher programs expand nationwide, direct action, protests and declarations of support for public schools isn't irrelevant. But after years of retreat, it’s time for a different tactic in the war on education.
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Trump, Betsy DeVos and the Plan to End Democratic Education
The president-elect has already pledged $20 billion to expand voucher programs nationwide, and his appointee for Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, views dismantling public education as a mission from God.
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Act Out! [89] - This Is How You Battle “Idiocracy: The Documentary”
In a special episode this week, let's talk education – the power of which is so strong that governments will, and do, withhold it from their own people as a twisted but efficient form of oppression.
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"Educational Excellence"? Brits Critical of Government Academies Say Think Again
“It is a complete bonfire of pay and conditions," said David Gilchrist of the Anti-Academies Alliance, who claims the government has "no evidence to back up the claim that academies improve educational standards – in fact the opposite is true."
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The New Battle In Seattle: How, Why and What the Teachers Won
The city's teachers prevailed this week because they made their strike is part of a greater struggle over the future of America’s cities and whether they will become semi-privatized playgrounds for the elites.
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Why Privatization Won’t Cure New Orleans’s Race Problem
Privatization advocates contend that Katrina brought essential reforms to Louisiana’s education system – but the facts tell a different story, as black residents report they live in a city that has yet to recover.
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Why We Occupy: London School of Economics Students Mobilize For A Free University
Students at LSE join a budding movement against the neoliberal university – and other universities across the U.K. and Europe – by occupying the administration’s meeting room.
