Protecting Our ‘Opportunity’ to Remain Plutocratic
The Supreme Court is erasing our shared responsibility for educating each and every child.
Helping Students Sort Fact from Fiction
More schools need to teach kids how to recognize BS when they see it.
Banned Books Should Be Required Reading
The people who want to ban Maus or The 1619 Project are the ones who need to read them.
Reimagining School Safety Resolution Toolkit
Real school safety means divesting from school resource officers and investing in restorative practices, social development, health, and counseling.
Teach Anti-Racism in Schools. It’s Worth It.
Research shows engaging directly with our country’s racist past and present helps students of all colors.
The Trump Administration Thinks Grad Students Aren’t Workers. Grad Students Tell Them to Think Again.
Graduate students aren’t just mobilizing against the NLRB. They’re demanding democracy in their workplace.
What the Felicity Huffman Scandal Says About America
Low-income parents risk jail for putting their kids in better public schools, while the rich bribe colleges to shut the poor out.
Inequality at the Center of Chicago Charter School Strikes
Teachers won the first charter school strike in the U.S. by demanding everything from pay raises to sanctuary schools for students.
Nine Things to Buy with $5 Billion Instead of a Border Wall
Five billion dollars is not huge in a federal discretionary budget of more than $1 trillion. But it’s an incredibly meaningful sum to any number of smaller federal government programs.
Punitive, Zero Tolerance Policies Are Endangering Our Students
Restorative justice is a promising alternative to arming teachers and putting cops in schools. And we can prove it.
Teacher Strikes are About Far More than Fair Pay
A growing movement is connecting labor struggles with justice in the classroom and the community.
Report: How Your Personal Income Taxes Were Spent in 2017
Our analysis found that the average taxpayer put in 29 working days in 2017 to pay Pentagon contractors.
Teachers Deserve a Raise. Here’s How to Fund It.
Huge tax cuts for energy corporations have left state school budgets broke.
West Virginia’s Teachers Score a Win
The teacher’s strike holds a lesson for other states: slashing taxes is no excuse for underfunding education.
Taxing Wealth to Make Public College Free Again
California’s ballot initiative aims to make college tuition-free by reinstating the estate tax.