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May 19, 2023
The California Teachers’ Strikes Have a Vital Lesson for the Labor Movement
These educators won big—and showed how to use a strike to better society as a whole.
Cecily Myart-Cruz
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April 5, 2023
Republicans Have a Favorite New Tool to Destroy Public Schools
“Education savings accounts” are the right’s new weapon of choice to devastate public education—and they could be coming to your state.
David Marques
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March 30, 2023
Low-Paid Workers Strike and Win in LA and Minor League Baseball Players Get Organized
On this edition of the Start Making Sense podcast, Harold Meyerson talks about the LA school workers’ victory, and Kelley Candaele and Peter Drier report on the new Minor League Baseball Players’ Union.
Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense
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September 6, 2022
In Choosing a Teacher for His Running Mate, Charlie Crist Walks the Walk
And that’s a smart political move in a state where Ron DeSantis’s teacher-bashing needs to be called out.
John Nichols
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September 6, 2022
It’s Time for Democrats to Stop Undermining Teachers’ Unions
Unions are key to building multi-racial solidarity and fighting divisive far-right politics.
Emelia Gold and Nicholas Rabb
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August 19, 2022
Why I’m Joining the Exodus of Teachers Leaving the Classroom
We all have our reasons for not returning. For me, it is the lack of care for teachers’ and students’ health as we face another year of Covid.
Liat Olenick
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June 2, 2022
How We Brought Ethnic Studies to My High School
Students of color shouldn’t have to wait until college to learn about their histories.
Mara Cavallaro
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April 29, 2022
Our Floundering Public School System Is Failing Teachers
Wherever you want to lay the blame, the solution isn’t hard to find—it’s just expensive.
Frida Berrigan
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March 8, 2022
Minneapolis Educators Strike for the Common Good
With public schools in limbo nationwide, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Eric Blanc
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February 18, 2022
To Fight Attacks on “Critical Race Theory,” Look to Black History
There is a long tradition of Black educators fighting attempts to keep America’s true history out of the classroom—one we can all learn from.
Keisha N. Blain