Choosing Democracy

Richard Trumka: Make Wall Street Pay So now we learn that as millions of America's families were losing their homes, Goldman Sachs  ch...

Arizona has a severe state budget crisis.   They are cutting police officers, schools, medical clinics, and public services ( as is Calif...

by Darlene Sylva, Sacramento I just got off the phone with my youngest sister, who lives in  Phoenix.  She is upset and nervous. Arizona...

Published in Print: April 28, 2010. Education Week. Commentary By Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst The American Recovery and Reinves...

Hope In Sight… Keep Our Educators Working Act Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) introduced legislation, the Keep Our Educators Working Act, that ...

Featured on  Funny or Die , a viral comedy video site, the  Woodland Avenue Elementary PTA ’s “ Hot for Teachers ” video features Brian Au...

13 Bankers. The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown.   (2010.) Johnson and Kwak. The currently proposed reforms of Wall St...

Over 8,000 teachers and other public workers  demonstrated in support of  the March for California’s Future  at the State Capitol in Sacrame...

Looking Past the Spin: Teach for America By Barbara Miner Rethinking Schools - Spring 2010 submitted to portside by the publisher http...

Sacramento schedule April 19.  Consumnes River College.  12 noon. April 20, CSU-Sacramento.   12 noon. April 21. Sacramento State Capitol  ...

By Robert Cruickshank. Carla Marinucci and Lance Williams have a  long and in-depth article  today on Meg Whitman's connectio...

The economic crisis in the state There are three candidates for Superintendent who have any reasonable chance to win; Gloria Romero,   To...

Henry Giroux.   There has been a long, though declining, tradition in the United States in which public school teaching was embraced as an ...

Hey. Tea Party advocates. You forgot to notice: You probably paid more taxes than ExxonMobil this year. Seriously. That's probably bec...

By Robert Cruickshank From: California Progress Report Carla Marinucci and Lance Williams have a  long and in-depth article  today on Meg W...

Why is Bank of America Not Paying Any Taxes on $4.4 Billion in Income?  By Sara Flocks 
 California Labor Federation Around this time eve...

  California Superintendent  of Public Instruction There are three candidates for Superintendent who have any reasonable chance to win; Glo...

 By  Duane E. Campbell Dolores Huerta will  celebrate her 80 th . birthday with activism.          Dolores, along with Cesar Chavez, Phil...