By David Sirota | Originally Published at PandoDaily. May 27, 2014 Last week, Gov. Chris Christie announced he will take $2.4 billion owed to New Jersey’s public pension system and use it instead to balance the state’s current budget. To hear Christie tell it, he has no [...]
Photographic Credit: Flickr/Judy Baxter By Jim Newell | Originally Published at Salon. May 22, 2014 During the Democrats’ productive 2010 lame-duck session of Congress, one of the major legislative items they were able to pass was the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, a.k.a. “Michelle Obama’s child nutrition bill.” [...]
AP Photograph | Carolyn Kaster By Bryce Covert Originally Published at Think Progress. May 20, 2014 AT 3:57 PM The unemployment rate for black workers has been significantly higher than for white workers since government data has been collected. But despite the fact that college graduates fare [...]
Photograph; Appalachian Children. Tumblr. By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at the Becoming Radical. May 20, 2014 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau, Walden Since October 1999, when I experienced several weeks of unrelenting panic attacks, I [...]
Michelle Obama attended the "Senior Recognition Day" event with high school students in Topeka, Kan., on Friday. | Credit Sait Serkan Gurbuz/Reuters By Sheryl Gay Stolberg | Originally Published at The New York times. May 16, 2014 TOPEKA, Kan. — Sixty years after the Supreme Court outlawed [...]
Photo Courtesy of Don Harder, CC2.0) By Susan Eaton | The Nation. May 15, 2014 Sixty years after Brown, whiter, wealthier communities are breaking away from racially and economically diverse school districts. A new secessionist movement, anchored in the South, provides yet another reminder that “separate” [...]
Photograph; M.K. Nguyen ends the protest with a Unity Chant as groups protest on the median in front of Sarah T. Reed High School to protest school closure, Monday, December 9, 2013. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune) By Danielle Dreilinger | Originally Published atThe [...]
Principal Troy LaRaviere was one of only a few principals to speak against budget cuts announced last July. LaRaviere says under Mayor Rahm Emanuel's hand-picked schools administration, principals have been told they must voice support for policies such as the longer school day. By Linda Lutton | [...]
Photograph; The petition was delivered five days before the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed school segregation. You Signed. Sealed. And Southern Poverty Law Delivered the Petition Demanding Florida Governor End State-Sponsored Discrimination Against Minority Students. [...]
