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On June 10, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu issued a ruling that threatens to strike down California education code statutes protecting teacher due process rights, including seniority and “tenure”. The lawsuit on which Treu ruled, Vergara...

A new documentary is a welcome antidote to the bleak and misleading message of "Waiting for Superman" and "Won't Back Down." Copyright, Truthout.org. Reprinted with permission. In the battle over public education, the corporate foundations and...

From "Go Public" Ever since the emergence of talking pictures, schools have been a major subject of both Hollywood movies and documentary films. One consistent theme of Hollywood portrayals of schools – from Blackboard Jungle (1955), Up the...

Advocates for fair and effective school discipline practices received a boost from the federal government with new guidance issued by the Departments of Education and Justice on January 8. The guidance instructs schools on how to administer school discipline...

In this Tuesday, May 13, 2014 photo, Dina Abdalla, left, and Leila Abdul Razzaq, of Students for Justice in Palestine, talk to a fellow student in front of an “apartheid wall” their group created to promote voting for divestment at DePaul University...