Education

As Trump has issued executive order after executive order and his billionaire bureaucrats have cut …

These are uncertain times: there are mass layoffs across job sectors, budget cuts, and deportations …

The detentions of Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student, and Rumeysa Ozturk, a …

Each year on March 15th, educators across the state of California learn if they have …

University of the Pacific (UOP) has agreed to host a right-wing, anti-trans speaker in March, …

A new bill attacking freedom of expression in public education passed in the U.S. House …

Sixty years ago today, on December 2, 1964, students on the Berkeley campus of the University of California took over Sproul Hall, the university’s main administrative building …

In Argentina, massive student protests are being held against Milei’s cuts to public universities. …

September 2, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French …

Lead has been found in Oakland schools’ water, and the response by school district officials has been inadequate. …

In a controversial move, Johns Hopkins University, one of Baltimore’s most elite institutions, began a push in early …

Donations from billionaires are not a substitute for having a system that works for all of us. …

Biden announced a cancellation of $7.4 billion of student loan debt, but he is still part of the system that produced that debt in the first place …

Last Tuesday, March 26, police arrested four students and as many as twenty more were …

For the first time, the college entrance exam SAT will be fully online, in a …

When Durham School System announced that 1,300 “classified staff,” (janitors, IT workers, teachers’ aides, and …

In response to the state of Israel’s horrific, genocidal brutality against the Palestinian people, hundreds …

California State University faculty went on strike for better working and learning conditions. …

Houston Independent School District is converting school libraries into student discipline centers. …

Florida’s new standards for African American History downplay the historical oppression of Black people, even saying that slavery benefited slaves. …

The occupation of the U.C. Berkeley Anthropology Library ended last week on Monday, July 17, …

If you were only reading the bombastic headlines from the past few weeks, you might …

On May 4 teachers in Oakland, California, went on a seven-day strike that ended with …

For over two weeks now, University of California (UC) Berkeley students, faculty, and community members …

On Monday morning, nearly 9,000 tenured professors, part-time lecturers and graduate student workers went on …

The Supreme Court is hearing a case to determine whether or not Biden’s student loan …

On Tuesday, school staff represented by Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 99, in the …

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida is creating a blueprint for reactionary control of public colleges …

This past week, after the University of California (UC) Berkeley administration announced plans to close …

On Wednesday, January 11th, the School Board for the Oakland Unified School District voted to keep the five schools open that were originally under plans to be shut down at the end of this school year. …

In November, an estimated 70,000 researchers, academics and administrators went on strike at 150 different …

On Monday, November 14th, about 48,000 unionized academic workers across the University of California’s 10 …

On Wednesday, October 12, faculty, staff, and students at Chadwick Elementary School were rushed from …

On April 29, Oakland public school teachers went on a one-day Unfair Labor Practice strike …

A discriminatory House Bill 1557 passed the Florida House of Representatives on March 1. It is appropriately called the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by critics because it restricts any discussions about LGBTQ+ …

Staff at the California College of the Arts (CCA) recently went on a four-day strike …

On Friday, February 18th, the majority of the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) Board voted, for the third time, to close and merge schools in the next two years …

From coast to coast, we have seen students list their demands for safe schools and stage walkouts, refusing to accept the breadcrumbs the people in power have tossed them. …

On Feb. 4, more than five thousand teachers took to the streets in Puerto Rico …

The struggle to keep the school doors open may not be easy, but it is winnable. But it will take an even larger, more organized and continued mobilization by Oakland parents, students, teachers and staff to win this fight. …

The Oakland School Board meeting on Jan. 31, 2022 was attended by over 1,800 community …

While there may be some people who look at our schools and see them as a money-making opportunity, these schools are our schools. It is not their decision to make — it is ours. We must link up across school communities to stand side by side and say, “no school closures!” …

Punitive measures against truancy set in place by Kamala Harris, are now being leveled against students in Oakland who have had the audacity to demand that their schools provide real safety protection. …

The first few months of this school year were exhausting and demoralizing for educators, as …

My students who were sick were never tested for coronavirus, they eventually returned to school after 10 days, and our classroom was no longer deemed an outbreak. Students deserve safe schools now. …

It is now almost the middle of October, and we’ve been back at school since …

Six weeks into the school year, and many COVID safety measures are still not in place. …

If the district is going to provide every school the safety measures being demanded, it’s going to be because they were fought for. …