News and Analysis: Education system

Racist school closings met with days of protest in Chicago

National mobilization to save public education needed

May 23, 2013

On May 22, the Chicago Board of Education carried through on its threat to close the largest number of schools in U.S. history.

Public outcry forces authorities to drop charges against Florida teen

Nearly 200,000 sign petition, scientists lend support

May 22, 2013

Keira Wilmot, the Florida teenager who was accused of igniting a chemical explosion on school grounds, will not face criminal charges after all.

Government's student loan business more profitable in 2012 than ExxonMobil

Loan payments a big burden as economy stagnates

May 20, 2013

Figures released by the Congressional Budget Office show that the government generates tremendous revenue from the exploitation of students.

Science experiment or racist attack?

16-year-old African American student arrested and expelled, to be tried as an adult

May 8, 2013

Kiera Wilmot, a 16-year-old African-American student at Bartow High School, was arrested and expelled for a science experiment that went wrong.

War on the poor: Tenn. law would cut welfare to families with struggling students

Right-wing 'family values': kick them while they're down

April 7, 2013

In an attempt to shame and blame poor families, a bill has cleared both houses of the Tennessee State Legislature that would cut welfare aid to poor families of children struggling in school.

Fifty schools on the chopping block in Chicago

The war on public education must be defeated

March 21, 2013

Chicago Public School officials announced March 21 the shuttering of 50 schools and 61 school buildings in the city. This is the largest number of school closings in one year in Chicago by far, beating the previous record of 12, and the largest mass school shutdown in U.S. history.

Chicago teachers fight racist school turnarounds

Union files lawsuit, demands immediate relief

January 9, 2013

Turnarounds—in addition to constituting an attack on teachers' unions and a reactionary policy for reform—have exacerbated the systemic problem of institutionalized racism.

System failure: homeless and unemployed college grads

Socialism would make jobs and homes a right

December 24, 2012

Freedom in the U.S. means the freedom to go hungry, freedom to go without a job and freedom to live on the street no matter how hard you work.

Québécois student movement victory

Wins tuition rollback, repeal of repressive law

October 3, 2012

The students in Quebec showed how the power of the mass movement can push forward a people’s agenda—in this case within the electoral arena.

Student loan debt crisis

A symptom of the disease of capitalism

September 30, 2012

Student loans have surpassed credit cards as the highest source of debt for workers in the U.S. where collectively, people owe over $1 trillion in student loans.

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