Only 14 when she fatally shot her mother, the teenager was tried as an adult and sentenced to life without parole, despite a history of mental health issues.
Eaton’s book traces the financialization of higher education from the 1980s through the 2010s, which underlay the subordination of academia to Wall Street and the war machine of US imperialism.
Faculty at Tulane and Loyola Universities in New Orleans issue public letters denouncing the violent police assault and disciplinary measures against a peaceful student encampment protest earlier this month.
Weingarten, a member of the Democratic National Committee with close ties to the Clintons, “Genocide Joe” Biden and other war criminals, personifies the role of the AFL-CIO bureaucracy as a mouthpiece for US imperialism abroad and austerity at home.
Predicted by many analysts to be the year of the “bloodletting” in public education, schools across the US have announced mass layoffs, school closures, and program eliminations, fueling the onset of a new wave of educator struggles.
•Emma Arceneaux, Nancy Hanover
“We are seeing the Democratic Party for exactly what it is”
Teachers across the United States have joined with millions of students, young people and workers throughout the world to protest and condemn the US-backed genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli regime.
The Biden administration’s investigations follow the month-long campaign to smear the growing opposition to the war crimes of the US and Israel as "antisemitic."
Despite overwhelming strike authorization votes in two of California’s largest school districts, the trade unions announced last-minute sellout agreements to prevent the strikes.
The vicious smear campaign against and blacklisting of students by billionaire CEOs, university administrators and state figures continue as mass opposition to Israel’s war crimes mounts on university campuses across the United States.
From coast-to-coast, educators and school workers in the US are preparing strike action against falling wages, impossible workloads and unsafe schools as the bipartisan assault against public education deepens.
Multiple lawsuits have exposed the existence of a secret warehouse used by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to interrogate, sexually humiliate and beat detainees.
Across the US, state legislatures have introduced dozens of bills that seek to enshrine “parental rights” in education. This article looks at the driving forces behind these bills and their chilling implications.
Dozens of juveniles have been held at the maximum security adult prison, where they report conditions of prolonged isolation, extreme heat, and violent assault by staff.
Testifying before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten defended her record of forcing millions of teachers and students back into unsafe classrooms during the pandemic.