Tag: education
Labor education starts in school
Giving K-12 students the language, information, and tools they need to protect themselves from workplace exploitation is a critical tool to reversing the nation’s capitalism-fueled inequality.
‘Unbelievably cruel’: GOP pushes astronomical cuts to education, housing, and food...
"The same party who provided $2 trillion tax giveaways to the wealthy wants to slash funding for WIC, devastating women and children," said Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore.
Sunrise Movement launches Green New Deal for Schools campaigns in high...
The campaigns are asking that school districts face the climate crisis, listen to students' needs and deliver on the campaign's promises to address climate change.
Why society is increasingly turning to community schools to address the...
The struggles of a rural school district in New Mexico illustrate how educators and parents believe they know what will work—if only they can get policy leaders to support it.
Making sense of Florida’s nonsensical history curriculum
‘Slavery wasn’t so bad; white men are the real victims’: these are the messages that appear to stem from the right-wing war on history. It’s part of a bigger picture rooted in the politics of fear.
Vox’s student loan ‘expert’ is paid by debt collectors
Kevin Carey’s job is funded by corporations that stand to lose so much from Biden’s cancellation of federal student loans deserves a disclosure from Vox.
Biden to cancel $39 billion in student loans post SCOTUS decision
More than 800,000 borrowers with debts outstanding for more than 20 years could have their student loans discharged.
How students jump started a bold new campaign for debt abolition
In response to these ongoing threats, students are once again taking action.
Right-wing indoctrination in charter schools at taxpayer expense
A “new breed” of charter schools is spreading conservative ideology and Christian nationalism.
Sanders, Jayapal re-up plan to make college tuition-free by taxing Wall...
Sanders' office called the proposal "the most substantial expansion of higher education access since the Great Society and President Lyndon B. Johnson's Higher Education Act of 1965."