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LA Teachers Make Good Their Promise To Support Community Schools

Jeff Bryant Independent Media Institute
“We knew the community schools idea would better address what our students need.” Even though implementations are still in their early phases, the schools and the families who attend them are already seeing tangible benefits.

The Pandemic Has Exacerbated a Long-Standing National Shortage of Teachers

John Schmitt and Katherine deCourcy Economic Policy Institute
The pandemic exacerbated a preexisting and long-standing shortage of teachers. The shortage is, instead, the result of a lack of qualified teachers willing to work in what has long been a highly stressful job for compensation that is well below what is available to college-educated workers in other professions.

Friday Nite Videos | November 18, 2022

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McCarthy Is in for a Rough Ride | Nancy Pelosi Passes the Torch. Wish You Were Here | Afro Fiesta. Karen Bass Speaks After Winning LA Mayor's Race. Steve Bannon Lost. Inside the Great Teacher Resignation.

Labor Is on the Offensive

Todd E. Vachon Barron's
Aided by a historically tight labor market and a supportive president and National Labor Relations Board, unionized workers have been able to use their newfound leverage to win demands that forward their agenda.

The Nazification of American Education

Henry Giroux CounterPunch
The crisis of education in the United States presents not only a danger to American democracy, but also the ideological and structural foundations for the emergence of a fascist state. Florida's Ron DeSantis view of education as propaganda factories
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