vs Two months ago, the city of Chicago enraged progressives by unveiling plans to close over 50 schools, mostly in the poorest African-American areas, in order to make up for a budget shortfall caused by the Bush Recession and their bloated corporate welfare system. Adding insult to inj... Read more...
Philadelphia Public School Closing: Gearing Up To Continue the Fight Over the last three weeks the PCAPS steering committee has been meeting to sum up our work over the last year and plan the next steps in our fight to win quality public education for all children. PCAPS is not going away. ... Read more...
The standards-based education reform movement calls school change “the civil rights issue of our time.” But about 220 mostly African American community organizers, parents and students from 21 cities from New York to Oakland, Calif., converged on Washington Tuesday to tell U.S. Secretary of Ed... Read more...
The School District of Philadelphia has announced nearly 40 school closures for next fall as it deals with serious budget problems and declining enrollments. The district expects the closures to save about $30 million annually. No teacher layoffs are associated with the closures but other job... Read more...