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All New Orleans Public School Teachers Fired, Federal Aid Channeled to Private Schools Immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit, the Louisiana state legislature voted to take over most of New Orleans' public schools and effectively fire the 7,500 teachers who work in them. The city schools are now part of the state-run recovery school district and control of many of schools is being given to private charter organizations. We speak with a member of the United Teachers of New Orleans....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 7:10am PDT
In Oaxaca Mega-March, 400,000 Send A Firm No to the Repression by Governor Ortíz 
Blockades and Occupations Throughout the State; San Blas Atempa Takes Back its Autonomous City Hall...
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 7:24pm PDT
Testing Only Hurts Low-Income Students of Color Looking to Graduate Every year in June, high school students don their sharpest outfits and pack school auditoriums to celebrate a key rite of passage: Graduation. The accomplishment typically generates so much excitement and pride in students, parents and teachers. That’s the way it should be....
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 9:46pm PDT
Stand-off Continues as Oaxaca Teachers Strike enters Fourth Week Teachers Soliciting Signatures to Impeach Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz in a Struggle Between Civil Society and the PRI...
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 10:41pm PDT
A Girl's World? author is critical of article in newsweek about "studies" that say the classroom environment is not conducive to boys' learning styles...
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 2:44pm PDT
BTL:Librarians Who Challenged Patriot Act Win Right To Speak Out Interview with George Christian, executive director of the Library Connection in Windsor, Conn. conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Jun 9, 2006 12:40pm PDT
Blame Affirmative Action's Demise for Black Student Drop-Off The gutting of affirmative action programs at many U.S. universities has resulted in a sharp decline in black enrollment. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a political analyst and social issues commentator, and the author of The Crisis in Black and Black (Middle Passage Press). The Hutchinson Report can also be read at http://www.earlofarihutchinson.blogspot.com....
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:59am PDT
Icily, Schwarzenegger-Linked Administration Readmits Banned Poet 
Bay area born writer, who has worked with the ancient Hindu poem which inspired Ghandi, has been reinstated with user privileges at a California community college, but relations with officials remains icy....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 4:51pm PDT
Punishing Free Speech: A Travesty of an "Investigation" I have received the report of the Investigative Committee of the University of Colorado and consider it a travesty. This "investigation" has all along been a pretext to punish me for engaging constitutionally-protected speech and, more generally, to discredit the sorts of alternative historical perspective I represent....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 6:45am PDT
Controversy Brews at New School Over Pick of McCain as Graduation Speaker Students and faculty at the New School in New York City have objected to the pick of Arizona Republican Senator John McCain as commencement speaker for this year's graduation. We speak with one of the students speaking out....
Posted: Thu, May 11, 2006 8:49am PDT
Princeton: Two-Thirds of Ivy League Adopt Gender Protections According to GenderPAC's GENIUS Index, almost
two-thirds of the nation's most elite institutions of higher education
have added "gender identity" and "gender expression" to their
non-discrimination policies within the past four years....
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 11:35pm PDT
help the food bank School children are setting up gardens to feed the poor and to give fresh produce to food banks. Volunteers needed from around the country....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 11:09am PDT
CA Safe Schools Co-Hosts Advocacy Workshop for Special Needs Children Protecting the Most Vulnerable!...
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 8:52am PDT
Arnold Picketed in Santa Barbara The Terminator showed up for an unannounced visit at the Davidson Library at UCSB today....
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2006 6:35pm PDT
University of Central Florida violates students' civil rights!!! At UCF, a PhD student was subject to the harrassment and stalking of the Assistant Director of Graduate Studies in 2004. When the student petitioned the court, the student was arrested by UCF police for exercising his civil right to do so. The student was then subjected to a hearing by the Office of Student Conduct, which violated his civil right to face his accuser. After a hard fought battle, the student gained the right to another hearing, where his rights were again violated. This con...
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 10:52pm PDT
Advocacy Workshop for Special Needs Children Recognizing the need for further parent training and education, parents and community groups, including Learning Disabilities Association of Orange County and California Safe Schools, are organizing the free Parent Workshop at the Goldy S. Lewis Community Center in the city of Rancho Cucamonga....
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 9:02pm PDT
Why Leftists Mistrust Liberals Some of my best friends are liberals. Really. But I have found it is best not to rely on them politically....
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 6:18am PDT
Virginia students sit in, 17 arrested in solidarity with campus workers for living wage Seventeen University of Virginia students were arrested on the Charlottesville campus April 15 because they staged a four-day sit-in at the university president’s office. The students demanded the administration accept its “moral responsibility” and commit to paying a living wage to university workers....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 6:53am PDT
Greece: Anarchists/Leftists clash with fascists at Panteion University Greece: Anarchists/Leftists clash with fascists at Panteion University...
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 10:55pm PDT
Villaraigosa Offers Plan for LAUSD Control Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa finally provided details to his plan to take over the Los Angeles Unified School District Tuesday during his first State of the City address....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 7:49pm PDT
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