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Charter School Industry's Stunning Loss in CA Primaries

In reviewing the losers in this week's primary elections in eight states, one shouldn't overlook the charter school industry, which took a drubbing in the California governor's race where its preferred candidate former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa drew a...

Making Movement Politics Real in Iowa and Beyond

“Our fight to lift up a million Iowans didn’t end when the polls closed,” said Cathy Glasson last night, when she conceded her race in the Democratic governor’s primary. “We’ve built a bold, progressive movement that will be a force to be reckoned with in Iowa...

Iowans for Glasson: We Are What Democracy Looks Like

Iowans do things their own way - especially when it comes to politics. I know: I’m born and raised in Cedar Rapids, and am a first-generation freshman at Grinnell College, a liberal arts school in the center of the state whose progressive roots reach back to the...

Join Us To Keep Families Together

It’s not right. Infants are being taken from their mothers. Families are being separated, and parents charged as criminals for sheltering children from violence. These courageous parents are doing the right thing. They’re protecting their children the only way they...

New Charter School Plan Should Alarm the Nation

Charter schools already have a segregation problem. But a new law about to pass in North Carolina would direct even more taxpayer money into funding charter schools that by design, if not by intent, lead to more racial segregation of school children. This is not only...

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