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• Jasiewicz: Reversing the flow

  To undo prison culture, we need to reverse exclusionary, utilitarian, capitalist culture. This includes dismantling the school to prison pipeline
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  Cole: Trump Wants to Defund the Universities to Stop People Thinking

  Trump notoriously set up a phony “university” to bilk prospective students of millions of dollars. He lost a civil suit to the outraged victims and had to pay them $25 million. Now the stable genius is coming for America’s universities
• Nagarajan-Swenson: Get Cops Out of Schools: A Factsheet

  Educators are waking up to the grave emotional and developmental harm school resource officers cause. School districts must reallocate their resources
• Dalsheim: Police states, pandemic, and the end of the university

  “One of my roles is to be in the classroom with my students come September, because coming together to think in real time and real space is fundamental to any other cause we care about.”
• Walker: Oakland School Board Unanimously Votes to Disband Its Own Police Force

  Recent controversies involving the district’s police force have led to renewed calls for it being disbanded
• ZAlbert: The Struggle for No Police in the Los Angeles Schools

  Source: LA Progressive Photo by mikeledray/Shutterstock.com A great leap forward...
• Lozenski: The Black Radical Tradition Can Help Us Imagine a More Just World

  An underlying dilemma for educational leaders is that the rewards of schooling now pale in comparison to the freedom struggle unfolding before their eyes
• Bryant: DeVos Using Pandemic to Strip Funding from Public Schools

  Public schools with students from low-income households get less, while private schools get more
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  Bader: Students and Staff Oppose COVID-Inspired Disaster Capitalism on US Campuses

  345 colleges consider themselves at risk of closing due to anticipated under-enrollment for the 2020-21 academic year.
• Olivier: Activists around the country are rallying for #PoliceFreeSchools.

  In Minneapolis, Cops Were Kicked Out of Schools. Cities in 7 Other States Could Soon Follow Suit
• Ravitch: ‘The War on Public Schools Continues, Only Now It’s Considered Reinvention’

  Interview on pandemic school privatization
• Paul: Coverage of School Reopening Needs to Include School Workers

  Many outlets are failing to reach out to unions representing the workers who will have to incur risks by entering physical school spaces if reopening happens too hastily
• Johnson: Teachers and Activists Urge Biden to Go Bold on Public Education

  "The public health and economic emergencies resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic have only made public education more vulnerable. It is no exaggeration to say that the future of public education itself is at stake."
• Gonzalez: Immigrants Protest Demolition of NJ Public School

  Interview on the fight to save the largely immigrant Lincoln Annex public school from demolition to make way for the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital’s $750 million cancer center
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  Monbiot: Rethinking Education

  Ecology and Earth systems, from which all life flows, should be at the heart of learning
• Hayes: Ontario Early Childhood Educators Unionize during Pandemic

  “People prioritized getting on the calls because they were concerned about their work and livelihoods.”
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  Theoharis: Spare CUNY, and Save the Education our Heroes Deserve

  During the Great Depression, local, state, and federal policymakers refused to cut and invested. Doesn't the present moment call for similar visionary action for public institutions like CUNY and the people they educate for generations to come?
• Moses: Discouragement Gap in College Dreams

  “More than 43 million Americans bear a collective total of more than $1.7 trillion in outstanding student loan debt”
• Robin: The Pandemic is the Time to Resurrect the Public University

  Sending students, professors, and workers back to campus, amid a pandemic, because colleges and universities need the cash, is a statement of bankruptcy more profound than any balance sheet could ever tally
• Chesler: The Empire Has No Clothes

  In the Classroom that Zoom Built