There’s no question we are in a moment. There is a surge in organizing. There is public support. And workers are angry, says labor scholar Kate Bronfenbrenner.
Democracy Forward’s Skye Perryman talks about the looming threats that the organized and well-funded right poses to public education and which tools are useful in fighting that threat.
It’s no coincidence that advocates for loosening child labor restrictions also push for expanding charter schools and voucher programs.
Activists, residents and leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city.
As PA Senate Republicans hold the budget hostage, domestic violence shelters are forced to furlough staff and turn away victims putting Pennsylvanians at risk of injury or death.
With elections next month, Central Bucks School Board’s Karen Smith reminds community members of the chaos and divisiveness Republican book banners inflicted on the district just a few years ago.
PEN America’s new report “The Normalization of Book Banning” exposes how book censorship has become “rampant and common” in public schools across the United States.
When politicians order books off the shelves, they aren’t protecting kids—they’re silencing voices, narrowing choices, and undermining the very purpose of a public education, writes Darren Laustsen.
