UCSD’s CHE Cafe Facing Eviction Next Week
By Doug Porter A ruling by Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal yesterday may well mean the end of the road for the C.H.E. Cafe, a student run cooperative at UCSD. The co-op will have five calendar...
View ArticleThe Big Problem With Time’s Teacher-Bashing Cover Story
By Peter Hart / Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) With a cover that announces "Rotten Apples: It's Nearly Impossible to Fire a Bad Teacher" alongside an image of a judge's gavel about to smash...
View ArticleLearning About Counter-Recruitment With Project YANO (Youth And Non-Military...
By Jesus Mendez-Carbajal / Draft NOtices In the past nine months as Project YANO’s 2013-2014 student intern, I have learned an immense amount of information about U.S. militarism, its far reach, and...
View ArticleShut-Peachment: The Coming GOP Drama Over Immigration. Get Your Popcorn Ready.
By Doug Porter Congressional Republicans are bracing for executive actions on immigration by President Obama in the very near future. The GOP apparently feels some sort of sense of entitlement coming...
View ArticleThe Condor and the Eagle: Part 1
By Horacio Jones The Condor and the Eagle: Part 1 "An ancient prophecy, says when the Eagle of North America and the Condor of South America unite and fly together, the spirit of peace will awaken on...
View ArticleUCSD Administration Plans Ché Café Eviction Over Thanksgiving?
Ché Café Media Advisory On Wednesday, November 19, UCSD administrators decided to seek a writ of possession to enforce an earlier unlawful detainer judgment and evict the Ché Café Cooperative and any...
View ArticleFerguson: America’s Heart of Darkness
By Jim Miller Along with so many people last week, I watched the events in Ferguson, Missouri unfold with profound dismay and anger while fighting a sense of despair over the intractable nature of...
View ArticleHow Boundaries Separating White School Districts From Nonwhite Communities...
By Robert Reich America is embroiled in an immigration debate that goes far beyond President Obama’s executive order on undocumented immigrants. It goes to the heart of who “we” are. And it’s roiling...
View ArticleWhat a Difference a Few Decades Make : An Interview with Kevin Beiser
By Judi Curry As a public school teacher beginning my career in the early sixties, I have seen the pendulum swing many ways in the past fifty years. (Fifty Years! My God!) Perhaps one of the biggest...
View ArticleSDSU Students Fight Fraternity Rape Culture
By Doug Porter Students at San Diego State University participated in a march and sit-in on Tuesday, demanding the school take action in response to sexual assaults and harassment. The protest was...
View ArticleUse “San Salvador” Replica to Tell the True Story of What Happened to Native...
Continuing the Debate: Is the San Salvador Replica a "Symbol of Genocide" or a "Marketing Tool for San Diego"? or can it be used to tell the true story? In the interests of continuing the debate of the...
View ArticleRemembering Peter “Pete” Chacon, June 10, 1925 to Dec. 14, 2014
Educator, Activist, California State Assemblyman 1970-1992 By Paul Chacon Peter Chacon served in the California State Legislature from 1970 until his retirement in 1992 representing the urban core of...
View ArticleThe Election of Pete Chacón: Latino Hope, Pride and a New Belief in the System
By Maria E. Garcia The general public knew Peter Chacón as a California State Assemblyman who served from 1970-1992. Very few know or understand what Pete’s election meant to the Latino community. From...
View ArticleThe Racist History of the Charter School Movement
Touted as the cure for what ails public education, charter schools have historical roots that are rarely discussed By Christopher Bonastia / AlterNet As a parent I find it easy to understand the...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Legislators Want Schools to Teach NRA-Approved Curriculum on...
By Meteor Blades / Daily Kos As diarist MNDem999 pointed out last month, three Republican legislators in the South Carolina House have introduced the Second Amendment Education Act of 2015. The bill,...
View ArticleThe Reality Tale of Two Education Systems: One for the Poor, and One for the...
New data reveals our public—not private—school system is among the best in the world By Paul Buchheit / AlterNet New data reveals our public—not private—school system is among the best in the world. In...
View ArticleRedefining the American Dream
By John Lawrence The American Dream is the ideological underpinning of the middle class. Now that the middle class is disappearing, it no longer makes sense as historically defined. Thom Hartmann...
View ArticleThe History of Neighborhood House in Logan Heights: Mary Barrios, Early Years
By Maria E. Garcia Mrs. Barrios was born in 1925. Her mother was very strict, and young Mary was not allowed to play with the neighborhood children. She says her only outings were to Our Lady of...
View ArticleUniversity of California Doctors Call One Day Strike
By Doug Porter Physicians at all 10 University of California student health centers will hold a one-day unfair labor practices strike on Tuesday. They gave notice to the UC system on Friday, following...
View Article5 Facts About Charter Schools the ‘National School Choice Week’ Campaign...
It's nothing more than a slick ad campaign, disguised as public service By Laurie Levy / Alternet Wow! Check out the fancy website for National School Choice Week. It’s polished, it’s colorful; it...
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