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Teachers hold a rally outside the Senate Chambers in the West Virginia Capitol, March 5, 2018. (AP/Tyler Evert)

What the media missed about the West Virginia teachers strike

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Students march in support of gun reform legislation, February 21, 2018 (Getty/Win McNamee)

Why students should go on strike over gun violence

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Voucher schools are teaching kids what can only be described as right-wing propaganda

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The 2016 election reveals the limits of “college for all”

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President George W. Bush, left, is introduced by Rep. Kenny Marchant prior to speaking at the American Legislative Exchange Council in 2007. (AP/Pablo Martinez Montsivais)

Why are corporations undermining public education?

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How closing public schools undermines democracy

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Betsy DeVos (AP/Susan Walsh)

White spite: Education is at the center of Trump’s politics

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Betsy DeVos’ vision goes beyond privatizing education — and she’s alarmingly close to realizing it

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Why do we keep insisting that education can solve poverty?

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There’s a big fight brewing between 1 billionaire and 2 million school kids in Illinois

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The right wing in America has long tried to destroy “government schools”

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Deeply unpopular, DeVos and ALEC in lockstep in trying to destroy public education

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Betsy DeVos: The queen of obfuscation, talking nonsense

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“The forces that are driving inequality are pretty powerful right now”: Paul Tough talks race, poverty and how we really fix our schools

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The charter-school scam deepens: The sick new “bubble” that could explode urban schools

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“I don’t think Chris Christie learned anything”: Phony education “reform,” Facebook cash, and the real casualty — public school students

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