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Public Schools news and analysis from The Nation
June 19, 2020
While the city of Minneapolis is now considered a vanguard in the national effort to defund the police, less acknowledged is that its public school system has been several steps ahead.
June 16, 2020
The city’s leaders bungled the closing of the schools when the coronavirus struck. Can they be trusted to reopen them safely?
June 1, 2020
Now everyone knows teachers, child care providers, and health aides are essential workers. Will that finally get them the pay and protections they deserve?
May 20, 2020
Employees of New York City’s public colleges are already being hit by the governor’s proposed austerity budget.
May 12, 2020
As a teacher, I wonder about the students I’ve been unable to reach and whose faces I never see online.
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March 15, 2020
Why teachers, principals, and politicians pushed New York’s mayor to shut down the country’s largest school system.
March 5, 2020
Republicans are running away from Betsy DeVos’s “education freedom” agenda as fast as they can. So why haven’t Democrats noticed?
February 26, 2020
That should count for something in the race for the party’s presidential nomination—but so close to Super Tuesday, is this coming too late?
February 10, 2020
It’s time for a wildcat strike.
December 30, 2019
Charter schools find their most vocal Democratic support among the least progressive members of the party: centrists and Wall Streeters.