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Social Movement Unionism Comes to the Teachers Unions at Last

July 16, 2014 by

I am an activist and organizer who recently joined the fight against “education reform,” which is really code for the attempt by corporations, billionaires and hedge funds and the industry they have spawned, to privatize public education and break the teachers unions. I have been frustrated at the seeming lack of interest on the part […]

Filed Under: Educators, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St Paul, New York City, Philadelphia, School closures Tagged With: AFT, teachers unions, UFT, UTLA

MUST READ: Nine Teen Suicides in One Minnesota School District

December 18, 2010 by K12NN Site Admin

Nine teen suicides in one year in one Minnesota school district–yet the district claims none were the result of (homophobic) bullying.

Filed Under: Minneapolis-St Paul, School Districts Tagged With: Anti-Bullying, Minn-Twin Cities

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Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

There are twenty-three candidates running to fill former Congressman Xavier Bacerra’s seat in Congressional District 34 in Southern California. (Bacerra is currently the state’s Attorney General, replacing Kamala Harris, who, after November 8, 2016, became our US Senator.) Election Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. You can find your polling […]

Betsy DeVos, #NOTMYSDOE

Take the pledge to #resist and fight for public schools as a public good TODAY. DeVos had to have the assistance of Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented tie-breaking vote in order to win her confirmation. Two GOP Senators voted against, all Democratic Senators voted against. Yet all the other GOP Senators who received campaign donations […]

Next #DemDebate MUST Include K-12 Education Policy

The next #DemDebate is scheduled for the important primary state of Iowa on November 14, 2015. It’ll be broadcast by CBS in partnership with the Des Moines Register. Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig is leading the call for the families of 50 million students K-12 across the nation and the communities they live in to have […]

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