education system
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Los Angeles teachers squeezed to make up for budget shortfalls
The author is a teacher in Los Angeles. It is hardly news that workers and their families are bearing the…
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Stimulus funds turned into weapon against public education, teachers
Public school systems across the country are now engaged in a "Race to the Top"--a nationwide competition between states for…
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Economic crisis leads to record military recruitment
For the first time in 35 years, the U.S. military surpassed all its recruiting goals. In 2009, 168,900 people joined…
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Over 2,000 rally against Fenty’s attacks on D.C. public education
On Oct. 8, over 2,000 teachers, school employees, city workers and community activists protested Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty's attack…
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Hundreds join Southern California student day of action
On Sept. 29, hundreds of students answered a call to action by the newly formed organization Students Fight Back. Students…
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D.C. Students Protest Teacher Layoffs
On Oct. 5, several hundred students from McKinley Technology High School in Northeast Washington, D.C., marched through the streets to…
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‘Take Back D.C.’ movement responds to budget cuts, economic crisis
Dramatic cuts, firings and privatizations have been sweeping over the public sector across the country. The District of Columbia is…
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Picket line kicks off teachers’ strike in Pennsylvania
More than 100 teachers and supporters formed a picket line outside Knoch High School in Saxonburg, Pa., on Sept. 21…
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UC students, faculty and staff mobilize against cutbacks
The tens of thousands of working - class students who attend college at one of the 10 University of California…
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Bushwick 32 teach lesson in organized struggle
Earlier this year, 16 Black and Latino youths from the Bushwick section of Brooklyn won $257,000 collectively in damages from…
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