Charter schools and privatization

Plans to “transform” LA’s Crenshaw High School are an excuse to fire teachers and scrap innovative programs at the school.

A protest inside Chicago's City Hall is the latest action by teachers, parents and students who oppose attacks on our schools.

Pressure from teachers and allies prevented the closure of a school where teachers voted unanimously to unionize.

A group of educators and parents marched on the headquarters of the corporate education reform group "Stand for Children."

In an attempt to discredit public schools and the teachers who teach in them, Steven Brill ends up mostly discrediting himself.

Despite a groundswell of opposition to corporate "reform" in the nation's capital, several D.C. schools are slated to close.

Parents, teachers and even administrators are speaking out in Texas as the mania for standardized tests gets ratcheted up.

We didn't expect the Gates Foundation to show up for a debate on school "reform," but they did. They were delicious.

More than 100 teachers, students and members of Occupy Austin gathered to protest plans for charter schools in East Austin.

The Panel for Educational Policy got a visit from teachers, students and parents angry about New York City public schools.

Most teachers recognize the influence of the uber-rich 1 percent on "reform" measures like charter schools and merit pay.

The battle over school privatization has come to a head in the fight to save Clay Middle School from the charter operator Green Dot.

Make no mistake about it--for those of us who are determined to defend public education, this is our Egypt moment.

Cathie Black, who has never attended a public school, was handpicked to be the new overlord of New York City students and teachers.

Once you get past the hype, the war on public education is motivated by the same imperatives--power and profit--driving U.S. wars abroad.

Thousands of people in Harlem are about to lose their green space--to the construction of yet another charter school.

Supporters of charter schools claim they are fighting a "civil rights" struggle, but would Martin Luther King sign up for such a "movement"?

Teachers, parents and activists are the superheroes, as they organize to counter the pro-corporate and anti-union message of the movie Waiting for "Superman".