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  • Inequality
    The DOJ Is Overseeing the Resegregation of American Schools
    September 11, 2017
    | Emmanuel Felton
    A major investigation reveals that white parents are leading a secession movement with dire consequences for black children.
  • Economy & Work
    The Student Loan Industry, Trump, Neoliberals Create Serfdom
    June 29, 2017
    | Binta Baxter
    Student loan debt in the US is being used as a form of economic terrorism designed to redistribute wealth, and to undermine and degrade American democracy.
  • Activism
    How Betsy DeVos’ Education Agenda Can Be Overturned
    March 10, 2017
    | Helen Gym
    What Philadelphia’s fight against market-driven school “reform” can teach us about resisting attacks on public education.
  • Democracy & Government
    Crimes of the Trump Era (a Preview)
    February 9, 2017
    | Tom Engelhardt
    The 25/8 news cycle is already rolling, but the looting of America hasn’t really begun.
  • Democracy & Government
    Betsy DeVos Confirmed Despite Massive Protests
    February 7, 2017
    | Diane Ravitch
    Despite the insult DeVos represents to public education, her nomination did unite the organizations fighting against its privatization.
  • Activism
    How Alaskan Activists Got a GOP Senator to Oppose DeVos
    February 2, 2017
    | John Nichols
    Unions and education activists urged Lisa Murkowski to oppose Trump’s education pick. On Tuesday, in a testament to the power of grass-roots resistance, Murkowski switched.
  • Democracy & Government
    What's Wrong with the Obama Plan to Help Student Debtors
    June 28, 2016
    | Ann Bowers
    The public has until Aug. 1 to weigh in on the Department of Education's proposed new regulations.
  • Activism
    The For-Profit College Scam That Students Are Still Paying For
    March 9, 2016
    | Sarah Jaffe
    “The interview seemed to go well,” one grad recalls, up until the moment when the interviewer looked at her resume. “She said, ‘Your degree isn’t any good.’”
  • Democracy & Government
    School Vouchers, Media Coverage of Washington and CEO Pay
    March 26, 2004 | NOW
    The use of public education money to support private schools, covering the 9/11 hearings as a White House correspondent, and the insanity of CEO pay.


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