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Students and Teachers Defend Public Education
 | Philadelphia Slashes Schools Budget While State Spends $400 Million on New Prisons | |
| Philadelphia communities fighting back against planned cuts that disproportionally
impact low income and African American communities | ||
 | Chicago Closes 50 Public Schools, Spends $100 Million in Taxpayer Funds on Private College Stadium | |
| Activists say national union leadership needs to give more support to Black and Latino working class
families fighting school closures | ||
 | Chicago Teachers and Parents Launch Three Day March Against 54 School Closings | |
| Increased gun violence expected in Chicago as school closings will force students to cross gang lines in America's deadliest city | ||
 | Occupy The Department of Education | |
| A four day occupation warns of the privatization of schools turning education
into a privilege instead of a right | ||
 | Massive Cheating Scandals Rock School Districts Nationwide | |
| New allegations of test impropriety under Michelle Rhee in Washington
DC follow 35 criminal indictments in nation's largest ever cheating
scandal in Atlanta | ||
 | Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis on Fighting School Closures | |
| Chicago Teachers Union President discusses defending Chicago's Public Schools | ||
 | City College of San Francisco and Public Education Under Attack | |
| Hundreds of students, faculty, and community supporters of the City College
of San Francisco rallied at City Hall to demand an end to cuts and layoffs and
full funding of public education | ||
 | More than 100 Arrested Protesting Mass School Closings In Chicago | |
| Teachers, workers and activists hope to pressure Chicago to abandon plans to close 61 schools | ||
 | Civil Disobedience Planned in Chicago to Oppose Unprecedented Mass School Closings | |
| Teachers, parents and activists to get arrested protesting the closing of 54 Chicago schools | ||
 | Seattle Teachers' Boycott of High Stakes Tests Spreads | |
| Educators nationwide support growing Seattle teacher boycott of high stakes tests | ||
 | Chicago Teachers Strike Enters Fourth Day | |
| Labor unions back striking teachers, while Democrats remain silent | ||
 | Chicago Teachers Strike Rooted in Community Struggle | |
| Chicago teachers fighting bipartisan consensus over "corporate" education reform | ||
 | Tens of Thousands Rally to Support Striking Chicago Teachers | |
| Historic Chicago teachers strike enters second day | ||
 | Chicago Teachers Launch Strike for Better Pay, Benefits and Work Conditions | |
| 30,000 strong Chicago Teachers Union strike for first time in quarter century | ||
 | Do Obama Policies Help Baltimore Schools? | |
| Baltimore Activists say "Race to the Top" harming Baltimore students and teachers | ||
 | Growing National Movement Against "High Stakes" Public School Testing | |
| New York parents and students say testing mania obstructs learning and hands money to private companies | ||
 | Hundreds Rally to Fight for Philadelphia Public Schools | |
| Philadelphia communities outraged by austerity and school privatization | ||
 | Dozens of Philadelphia Public Schools on Chopping Block | |
| Students, parents, teachers, rally against a proposed radical restructuring of the public school system | ||
 | Quebec's Maple Spring | |
| May 1st in Montreal was a display of how the student strike is part of
Quebec's larger struggle against neo-liberalism | ||
 | New York Students Allege Police Harassment for Fighting School Closure | |
| Activists want charges dropped and 5,000 police removed from New York public schools | ||
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