education system
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Science experiment or racist attack?
Kiera Wilmot, a 16-year-old African-American student at Bartow High School, was arrested and expelled for a science experiment that went…
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Students Against Mass Incarceration hold successful first conference
Well over 100 people descended on Howard University on April 19 and 20 for the first national conference of Students…
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Coalition to Save CCSF puts Board of Supervisors on the spot
On April 16, dozens of members from the Save City College of San Francisco Coalition presented a resolution to the…
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War on the poor: Tenn. law would cut welfare to families with struggling students
In an attempt to shame and blame poor families, a bill has cleared both houses of the Tennessee State Legislature…
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Thousands march to stop Chicago racist school closings
Over 5,000 people marched on the school board in Chicago on a cold winter afternoon on March 27.
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Fight to save City College of San Francisco intensifies
On March 14, more than 2,000 supporters of the Save City College Coalition gathered in front of San Francisco’s City…
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Fifty schools on the chopping block in Chicago
Chicago Public School officials announced March 21 the shuttering of 50 schools and 61 school buildings in the city. This…
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Hundreds in Philadelphia protest vote on public school closings
Hundreds of teachers, students, parents and community members gathered March 7 to express outrage at the Philadelphia School Reform Commission’s…
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Chicago teachers fight racist school turnarounds
Turnarounds—in addition to constituting an attack on teachers' unions and a reactionary policy for reform—have exacerbated the systemic problem of…
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System failure: homeless and unemployed college grads
Freedom in the U.S. means the freedom to go hungry, freedom to go without a job and freedom to live…
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