Choosing Democracy

Rank-and-File Teachers Object As Nation's Biggest Union Weighs Early Clinton Endorsement Mirroring similar rifts within other uni...

CTJ Statement: Trump Tax Plan Would Cost Nearly $11 Trillion Over 10 Years | CTJReports

Author:  Valerie Strauss Friday, September 25, 2015    Washington Post Seattle teachers went on strike for a week this month wit...

  Billionaire’s Secret Plan: A ‘Hostile Takeover’ of LA Public Schools Deirdre Fulton September 23, 2015 Common Dreams   Last...

Our Kids: The American Dream In Crisis. Robert D. Putnam. Review by Duane Campbell This new book is an insightful and well researc...

Sara Bernard On one block of the Central District last Thursday: dozens of teachers wearing bright-red Seattle Education Associ...

Jeff Bryant Teachers unions are routinely vilified by pundits and politicians on the right and left these days. So when schoolteachers in...

Bernard Weisberger September 14, 2015 Moyers & Company   Trump’s announced intention to deport 11 million “illegals” while buildi...

“Raising Issues About Citizens, Activism and the  Constitution” Friday, September 18, 2015 Orchard Suite, University Union 3:00pm-4...

Washington State Supreme Court: Charter Schools Are Unconstitutional - A Landmark Ruling September 9, 2015 . ...

For the first time in 30 years, Seattle teachers are hitting the picket lines on Wednesday after the teachers union and the school board...

TEACHERS FILE FRIEDRICHS BRIEF:  A group of California teachers filed the first salvo in a Supreme Court case that could impose right-to...

English-Only to the Core What the Common Core means for emergent bilingual youth BY JEFF BALE Children and their parents demonstr...

When Chris Christie said that our union deserves “ a punch in the face,”  I was appalled but not surprised. When Scott Walker compared u...

Much-touted education “reform”  has proven unsuccessful   Thomas Jessen Adams Source:   Jacobin Abrasion School children It’...