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April 3, 2017
Bernie Sanders Just Introduced His Free College Tuition Plan
Joining with Elizabeth Warren, Sanders wants students to organize around the legislation.
George Zornick
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March 31, 2017
South Carolina Coach Frank Martin Has It Backward on ‘Today’s Kids’
I’m not worried about this generation. I’m worried about the rest of us.
Dave Zirin
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March 27, 2017
The Civil Rights Movement Had One Powerful Tool That We Don’t Have
Without it, activists will have to find new ways to bring about change in 2017.
Jon Else
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March 8, 2017
Teachers Will Be a Formidable Force Against Trump
Teachers are working to protect undocumented immigrant students, trans students, and any student whose chance at an equitable education is at risk.
Michelle Chen
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March 7, 2017
Betsy DeVos’s Education Agenda Can Be Overturned. This City Shows How.
What Philadelphia’s fight against market-driven school “reform” can teach us about resisting attacks on public education.
Helen Gym
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February 24, 2017
We Can Fight Trump’s Cuts to Essential Government Programs
His budget agenda has everything do with right-wing ideology and nothing to do with fiscal responsibility.
William D. Hartung
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February 8, 2017
Betsy DeVos Has Been Confirmed. Now the Fight Really Begins.
DeVos will have significant influence over how civil-rights protections for students are enforced, and how the for-profit college and student-loan industries are regulated.
Zoë Carpenter
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February 1, 2017
How Alaskan Activists Got a Key Republican Senator to Oppose Betsy DeVos
Unions and education activists urged Lisa Murkowski to oppose Trump’s education pick. On Tuesday, in a testament to the power of grassroots resistance, Murkowski switched.
John Nichols
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January 18, 2017
Betsy DeVos Just Flunked Her Senate Test
From guns in schools to accountability for for-profit colleges, the nominee for secretary of education either could not or chose not to answer most serious policy questions.
Zoë Carpenter
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January 13, 2017
The Coming Crusade Against Public Education
Secretary of Education–nominee Betsy DeVos has fought to “advance God’s Kingdom” by privatizing the public-school system.
Zoë Carpenter