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The latest rightwing attack on public schools has been raging for more than a year with angry, screaming parent groups disrupting school board meetings threatening jobs and lives of educators. Those weren’t actually spontaneous grassroots protests.
Most schoolchildren get only an hour or two of climate education per year. It’s up to their parents to teach them optimism and action in the face of a daunting crisis.
Our research found that many plantation museums are reluctant to highlight Black lives and histories. But there is promising evidence of change at sites like McLeod Plantation in Charleston and Whitney Plantation in Louisiana.
The reduction in government jobs during the pandemic continues a long-term trend in the public sector, according to experts, and could lead to the widening of the racial wealth gap in the country if left unaddressed.
Cafeteria staff make learning and healthy development possible by providing balanced meals to kids who otherwise might not get them. In return, they bring home some of the lowest earnings of the generally underpaid K–12 workforce.
The goal isn’t merely eliminating barriers to ascending the strata, but rather flattening the hierarchy altogether. If “equity” is to be a worthwhile word, it will have to mean de-stratifying the systems that impose sexist and racist hierarchies.
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