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City University of New York students fight government cutbacks
Slowly but surely, the economic crisis is beginning to be felt far and wide across our class. Last week, news…
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Make Wall Street pay, not our New York City schools
The author is a member of the United Federation of Teachers in the Bronx. If the New York City government…
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Florida imprisons mentally-ill juvenile
Despite diagnoses of schizophrenia, obsessive oppositional disorder and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, a nine-year-old girl in Fort Myers, Fla., has been…
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California schools reel under new round of budget cuts
California’s budget crisis has hit schools and community college districts extremely hard. Thousands of California teachers received layoff notices in…
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Pennsylvania teachers strike under fire
Despite a campaign to strip Pennsylvania teachers of their rights, strike actions in two Pittsburgh-area school districts have been authorized…
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Tens of thousands of Iraqis protest against extension of occupation
Tens of thousands of Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad Oct. 18 in militant opposition to a proposed pact…
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Florida teachers challenge budget cuts
Florida’s public education system is facing further anguish as a result of continuing budget cuts. Florida has traditionally depended on…
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Boston teachers face layoffs
In March 2008, the media reported that Boston Public School officials had to try to fix a $33.2 million gap…
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D.C. public school chancellor wages war against teachers
Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty and his hand-picked chancellor of public schools, Michelle Rhee, have all but declared war on…
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Dallas teachers protest mass layoffs
Hundreds of teachers surrounded the Dallas Independent School District Building in Texas as the school board voted to fire workers…
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