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Sequestration Nation: Back To School With Budget Cuts
CREDIT: AP As children begin to head back to school for the 2013-2014 school year, many could find larger class sizes, less staff, and fewer upgrades to things like computers or textbooks when they...
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Back To School In Philadelphia: Bigger Classes, Smaller Staff
CREDIT: Holly Otterbein via Twitter The new school year has been marred for many students all over the country by severe budget cuts, shuttered schools, and decimated staff. Philadelphia, where...
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Most States Still Spending Less On Education Than Before The Recession
CREDIT: AP More than two-thirds of the states are spending less on each student in K-12 education than they did before the recession hit, according to a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy...
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Transgender Homecoming Queen Faces Negative Backlash To Historic Win
Cassidy Campbell, Homecoming Queen. CREDIT: AP. In an historic win Friday night, transgender teen Cassidy Lynn Campbell was crowned homecoming queen at Marina High School in Huntington Beach,...
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‘Saving Our Locker Rooms’ Arguments Erase Transgender People
California’s new law ensuring transgender students have equal access to school facilities and activities is uniting various conservative groups in opposition. The effort to repeal AB 1266, the...
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New Nebraska Family Alliance Attacks Transgender Student Athletes
Two of Nebraska’s most prominent social conservative groups, Family First of Nebraska and the Nebraska Family Council, have combined to become the Nebraska Family Alliance. The new group’s first...
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‘Valentine Road’ And The Institutional Failures That Enable Anti-LGBT Bullying
It’s been over five and a half years since 14-year-old Brandon McInerney shot his Oxnard, California classmate Lawrence “Larry” King in the head out of disgust for his sexual orientation and gender...
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Some Of The Neediest Schools Running Out Of Money As Shutdown Continues
Students at the Quileute Tribal School CREDIT: AP Schools on or near Native American reservations and military bases, which end up with less property tax revenue to support their operations, receive...
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Anti-LGBT Group Admits It Invented Story About Transgender Student Harassing...
Conservative media has been quite exercised this week by a story about a transgender student at Florence High School in Colorado allegedly harassing girls in the locker room. The Pacific Justice...
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In 17 States, The Majority Of Public School Students Are Poor
CREDIT: AP The number of states whose public school populations are mostly made up of poor people quadrupled from 2001 to 2011. Students poor enough to qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches...
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Poorest School Districts Hit By Second Round Of Sequestration Cuts
The most vulnerable schoolchildren in the country are seeing their teachers get laid off and their school facilities slip further into disrepair thanks to Congress’ ongoing failure to reverse...
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Meet The Transgender Teen An Anti-LGBT Group Is Claiming ‘Harassed’ Her...
Jane Doe The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) has claimed that a transgender teen at Florence High School in Colorado is harassing her classmates. According to the school superintendent, those claims...
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Arkansas Catholic School Fires Lesbian Teacher For Marrying — On Her Wedding Day
Barb Mariani and Tippi McCullough Last week, Tippi McCullough and Barb Mariani traveled from their home in Little Rock, Arkansas to Albuquerque, New Mexico to make their 14-year relationship official...
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How The Incendiary Rhetoric Against Transgender Youth Is Escalating
Six-year-old Coy Mathis Conservatives are continuing to ramp up their rhetoric against transgender youth, using the Pacific Justice Institute’s (PJI) fabricated story about Colorado teen Jane Doe to...
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Anti-LGBT Group Continues Targeting Transgender Teen On Suicide Watch For...
Jane Doe The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) has been targeting a transgender teen in Colorado (“Jane Doe“), accusing her of “harassment” simply for using the girls’ bathroom. According to Cristan...
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American Schools Are Missing 389,000 Teachers
CREDIT: AP Over the last five years, the number of students enrolled in K-12 schools has gone up by 1.6 percent, and to keep up with that growth, the country would have needed to hire an additional...
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Kansas’s Regressive Tax Experiment Will Likely Hurt Its Schools
Local officials fear Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s (R) “real live experiment” with the state’s tax system will force cuts to schools as the evaporation of income tax revenue drives down state...
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The Unemployment Rate For Native Americans Has Been Over 10 Percent For Five...
CREDIT: AP While the unemployment rate for white workers peaked at 9.1 percent in 2010 and is now down to 6.1 percent, Native Americans have experienced double digit unemployment rates ever since...
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Three Progressive Measures On Tuesday’s Ballot That You Should Know About
Congress may not be up for grabs, but Election Day 2013 still comes with high stakes for progressive economic policy ideas. On Tuesday, voters in Colorado, New Jersey, and a small Washington town are...
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How Moving Breakfast Into The Classroom Boosts Learning
Shifting student breakfasts from the cafeteria to the classroom produces a significant gain in vulnerable children’s readiness to learn, according to a new survey by the Food Research and Action...
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