Choosing Democracy

Jim Horn 
Arne Duncan stood before the NAACP convention last week to repeat his claim that "education is the civil rights issue of o...

Your vote in November will make a difference; Boxer vs Fiorina. Republicans on Thursday again filibustered and stopped the effort to provid...

"I am 110 % in support of teachers. " Watch the video. http://www.cspan.org/Watch/Media/2010/07/29/HP/R/36186/Pres+Ob...

Eliseo Medina at Netroots Nation: Unite to Defeat anti-immigrant, anti-Latino movements from Talking Union on Vimeo . Wait. It takes some...

Civil Rights Framework for Providing All Students an Opportunity to Learn through Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education ...

Judge Blocks Key Parts of Immigration Law in Arizona By  RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD PHOENIX — A federal judge, ruling on a clash between the federa...

The American people are hurting. As a result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on Wall Street, millions of Americans have l...

AFT Has Mixed Reaction to Latest Race to the Top Finalists AFT president Randi Weingarten on July 27 congratulated the 19 finalists for ...

A coalition of civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, issued a scathing report about RTTT, calling on President Obama and Arne Dun...

Christopher Hayes. The Nation. First, the facts. Nearly the entire deficit for this year and those projected into the near and medium ter...

The expiration of the special unemployment compensation provisions enacted earlier in the recession has brought the problems of long-term un...

Here is the take away. The Senate passed a bill to reform the financial system to limit the kind of bankers robbery that occurred in 20008. ...

The U.S. House of Representatives just delivered a major victory for America’s educators. Now, we have to keep up the pressure and get the ...

Democrats successes so far. 2009
January 29: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
 February 4: Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act
 Febr...

by Randi Weingarten  The blame-the-teacher crowd would have Americans believe that there is only one choice when it comes to public educa...

Democrats successes so far. 2009
January 29: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
 February 4: Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act
 F...

Christina Romer, Advisor to the President. The Council of Economic Advisors submitted a crucial report today on the state of the economy....

How Do California’s Education Spending and Staffing Levels Compare   to Other States? California’s spending for public schools lags that ...

Outside the Casino By  BOB HERBERT The hustlers and high rollers at Wall Street’s gaming tables are starting to feel lucky again. Hiring is ...