by Jim Miller AFT, Vice President Community Colleges are facing an enrollment crisis nationally with California’s decline unfortunately leading the way. According to a report by the American Association of Community Colleges , “Community college enrollment has been...
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The costs of America’s historic level of economic inequality have been growing for decades and no one has more comprehensively addressed this phenomenon than economist Thomas Piketty, who, in a recent New York Times interview, expressed optimism at the potential for...
Last fall, after Virginia turned to the right when the Republicans weaponized educational culture war issues, the vast majority of the mainstream coverage reveled in the horserace analysis but never engaged in any deeper examination of how we got to a place where...
“And now, in 2022, we are in a new educational moment. Between January 2021 and January 2022, the legislatures of 35 states introduced 137 bills to keep students from learning about issues of race, LBGTQ+ issues, politics, and American history. More recently, the...
The impressive wave of labor activism we saw in the fall has continued into 2022, but, despite this, the number of workers represented by a union declined by .5% last year. More American workers have a favorable view of labor and would like to be represented by a...
As evidenced by the hysterical stagecraft around “critical race theory” during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Republican obsession with demonizing schools shows no sign of abating. As many have noted before, the polling...
