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• Brooks: Before It All Melts Away

  The negotiable issues vary by state, but contracts could potentially limit class size, lock in wage scales and health benefits, limit standardized tests, define the evaluation and tenure process, and establish protections against arbitrary discipline
• Capeloto: What’s wrong with secret donor agreements?

  George Mason University President Ángel Cabrera acknowledged this month that his school gave the Charles Koch Foundation “some influence” over hiring and evaluating faculty
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  Giroux: Striking Teachers Beat Back Neoliberalism’s War on Public Schools

  The struggle over public education has ignited new modes of criticism that contain the potential to build a mass movement from the bottom up
• Russom: Why “blue state” teachers need their own revolt

  For the first time, United Teachers Los Angeles is tying our local contract demands to a statewide demand of 20 by 20: funding levels of $20,000 per pupil in California by the year 2020
• Friedman: What’s Behind the Teachers’ Strikes

  When there is no effective access to meaningful channels for change, workers resort naturally to the only power no one can steal from them—the power to withhold their labor
• Brophy: Puerto Rico: The Teacher Uprising the Media Is Ignoring

  We are focusing on the shutdown targets to boycott standardized tests. No testing, no scores, no information, no charter
• Corriher: Trump hastening resegregation of Southern schools

  America's schools are more racially segregated than they've been in decades
• Holmes: Why this N.C. teacher is taking to the streets

  We need to treat the whole student
• Torres Goitia: What Students Are Capable Of

  Sexual Harassment and the Collateral Beauty of Resistance
• Starzman: Academic alienation

  Freeing cognitive labor from the grip of capitalism
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  Piascik: Teachers’ Strikes Past and Present

  People’s class allegiances emerge as struggle intensifies, and the fact that some of the striking teachers voted for Trump is almost irrelevant as they engage in actions like the recent walk-outs
• Cohen: A Major Step Toward Organizing Charter Schools

  The fight over charter schools is often just as much a battle over unions
• Schools: Defending Immigrant Students

  In the Streets and in Our Classrooms
• Karvelis: Teachers’ Strike Reaches Day Five

  Schools are closed for a fifth day in Arizona, as thousands of teachers continue to strike demanding better funding for education
• Giddings: Educators Rise Up

  Making People’s History in Arizona
• BP-Weeks: Building on the 2018 Teachers’ Mobilization

  By bargaining for and with the larger community, teachers are reinventing collective bargaining
• Owliaei: Teacher Strikes Continue to Spread

  A Symptom of Public Education Underfunding
• Parramore: Grooming U.S. Kids for Servitude

  The corporate plan to wipe out public schools
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  Speri: Black Students Demand Changes to Racist Discipline in Schools

  In the 2016-2017 school year, Milwaukee Public Schools suspended 10,267 students, including one of every three ninth-graders
• Clawson: Teacher Strikes Shut Down Schools Across Oklahoma and Kentucky

  Disrespect for teachers is certainly at play in Republican-controlled states that pay salaries that leave teachers working second, third, and even sixth jobs