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Eleanor J. BaderSalon |
The voucher system came out of racist parents’ rejection of integrated schools in the ‘50s. It’s still hurting students.
A new study says 48 percent of K-12 educators feel their decline in mental health has impacted their ability to teach.
Early childhood educator Sammi Gerken, a married mother of a 3-year-old, became a surrogate in late 2022 and calls the experience “rewarding on all...
British cartoonist Steve Bell estimates that he has drawn more than 13,000 comic strips, illustrations and cartoons since the early 1980s, most of...
When Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz attended the 2023 Turning Point USA convention, he gave the Christian nationalists in attendance a preview of the...
When Oren Alperin was ready to apply to high school, they knew they wanted to study theater. Now a junior at the competitive Brooklyn High School of...
When New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued a notice to asylum-seeking families in January informing them that they would be evicted from temporary...
For decades, tenants with criminal records have been restricted from accessing public housing. This may soon change.
Grants Pass, Oregon, population 39,000, has passed three ordinances since 2017 to prohibit “sleeping on public sidewalks, streets, or alleyways,”...
Silky Shah, executive director of the Detention Watch Network, a 27-year-old, national coalition working to abolish the incarceration of immigrants in...
Shortly after the San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed that denounced an educational program called Woke Kindergarten, the right-wing echo...
Kasey Meehan, director of the Freedom to Read program at PEN America, likens the ongoing fight against legislation intended to restrict what teachers...
As the fiscal 2024 budget battle unfolded, congressional Republicans made their position clear — they wanted spending on anti-poverty efforts to be...
When Afshan Jafar arrived at Ohio Wesleyan University as an undergraduate in 1995, she enthusiastically enrolled in a variety of classes, including...
When epidemiologist and parent Rebecca Fielding-Miller heard that California was going to allow asymptomatic, COVID-19-positive students to attend...
On the face of it, House Bill 6914, passed just days before the annual anti-abortion “March for Life” in late January, sounds benign. Its...
When William Russo learned that some of the newly arrived asylum seekers being housed in tents on the grounds of Floyd Bennet Field, a former military...
After the Supreme Court’s June 2022 Dobbs decision eviscerated the already limited federal right to abortion, 14 states — Alabama, Arkansas,...
Between 2021 and early 2023, at least 25 states saw bills introduced into their legislatures to remove social and emotional learning (SEL) from public...
When Yusef Presley was 5, he was removed from his family home and separated from his mom and 8-year-old sister due to allegations of maternal abuse....
When retired veterinarian Richard Timmins went on a Medicare Advantage plan in 2016, he admits that he knew very little about Traditional Medicare...