Staff / TruthdigFeb 26, 2015
Amid recent calls for reform, New York City’s Department of Education is introducing new restrictions on suspending and restraining kids in city schools. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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A recent shift in public school demographics mirrors the wider picture of growing poverty and dramatic inequality that has come to characterize American society. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 17, 2014
A top official in the New York State Comptroller’s Office has urged regulators to require more transparency on charter-school finances. The response has been, well, nonexistent. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
David Sirota / TruthdigDec 13, 2014
Charter schools are often promoted as a tool to address educational inequities, but a potential precedent-setting legal case launched earlier this month says the opposite. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 11, 2014
Some charters pass along nearly all their money to for-profit companies hired to manage the schools. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 3, 2014
All school districts in the country are required to tell the federal government how many times kids have been restrained in their schools. But some districts aren’t following through. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Robert Reich / TruthdigNov 29, 2014
America is embroiled in an immigration debate that goes far beyond President Obama’s executive order on undocumented immigrants. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Mike Rose / TruthdigNov 18, 2014
What is the relation of social class and inequality to achievement, and the purpose of education in a democratic society? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Amy Goodman / TruthdigOct 2, 2014
"Don't make history a mystery" read one of the signs at a rally in Jefferson County, Colo. High-school students in this suburban district, referred to locally as "JeffCo," have been walking out of class en masse this past week, protesting the planned censorship of the district's Advanced Placement (AP) United States history curriculum by the local school board. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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