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Advocates say a dads on duty program could disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline and promote racial justice

A viral video of fathers intervening at a Louisiana high school has advocates calling for similar v…

DeArbea Walker   


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I used to be a public school teacher. Now I work as a 'middleman' government contractor and can travel when I want to.

I've signed 14 government contracts, with my largest potentially resulting in up to $1 million in v…

Ana Altchek   


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Hidden investors took over Corizon Health, a leading prison healthcare company. Then they deployed the Texas Two-Step.

Corizon Health, facing mounting debt, executed a controversial bankruptcy maneuver. Hundreds of pri…

Nicole Einbinder,Dakin Campbell   


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Black and brown students are more likely to receive harsher and more frequent punishment than white students. The solution isn't just about teachers.

Disciplining a disproportionate amount of Black and brown students "could hurt the general success …

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Women are the majority in education, yet still find themselves overlooked for promotions and making less than their male peers

"I think my principal has his boys club of male teachers," Judy, a public middle-school teacher in …

Katherine Hekker   


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A Black fourth grader was suspended for having a BB gun visible in his online class

The Harvey school suspended 9-year-old Ka Mauri Harrison for violating its internet usage policy an…

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There's a shortage of special-ed teachers in the US. Advocates say the system isn't set up to support disabled educators when schools need them most.

Cole Sorenson said he was burned out in university after being forced out of the special-ed track a…

John Loeppky   


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A look at how US sex education in public schools has evolved over the last 60 years and its impact on LGBTQ students

Sex-ed policy is decided by states, not the federal government, and has historically supported abst…

Rachel Sanoff   


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Kaia Rolle was arrested at school when she was 6. Nearly two years later, she still 'has to bring herself out of despair.'

Kaia Rolle had to stand on a step stool to take a mugshot when she was 6. She has lingering symptom…

Taylor Ardrey   


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Schools that suspend more students have more of them end up in jail

A paper finds that children that attend schools with higher rates of suspension are about 15% to 20…

Allana Akhtar   


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Disturbing study exposes one big way public schools treat black kids differently

"On average, Blacks were 24% of students in the 3,022 districts we analyzed, but rates at which the…

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Lawyer For Teen Arrested For A Science Experiment Working To Prevent Felony Charges From Being Filed [Q&A]

I've seen instances where kids are playing and it looks like one is striking one intentionally to d…

Jennifer Welsh   


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I experienced homelessness in San Francisco while studying for my Ph. D. Now, as a caseworker, I work to make sure my Black clients don't suffer the same fate.

As a caseworker who works on eviction prevention, Brandon Williams says he sees the decades-long im…

Isaiah Reynolds   


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Black Lives Matter responds to chilling National Rifle Association video that was seen as an 'open call to violence'

"They use their guns to assassinate black people, they use their schools to funnel black students t…

Madeleine Sheehan Perkins   


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Principal who inspired a viral Humans of New York post explains her revolutionary approach to education

"My principal, Ms. Lopez. When we get in trouble, she doesn't suspend us. She calls us to her offic…

Abby Jackson   


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How a single state has twice as many truancy cases as the rest of America

In March, the Justice Department announced that it was investigating truancy courts in Dallas for p…

Maxwell Tani   


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Hillary Clinton had a 'candid' hour-long meeting with Black Lives Matter activists about racial injustice

Clinton has been careful to avoid the mistakes that her fellow Democratic opponents have run into&#…

Maxwell Tani   


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Sanctions Or No, Here's How Putin Has Laid The Groundwork To Bully Europe For Years To Come

In July, having seized Crimea's territorial waters along with the region itself, Russia announced G…

Diane Francis   


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Trump's first 100 days were unlike any we've ever seen - here are all the promises he's kept and broken

On his pledge to curb the power of special interests, Trump has so far used an executive order to p…

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