Keep ICE Out of Schools!
By Sonia Banker Only a few years after the pandemic, young kids in this country are seeing a whole new disruption to their learning: immigration raids. One of the Trump administration’s first actions after assuming…
September 2025
Surveillance U
College campuses: the new labs for military spy tech By Elham Azad In early June 2025, The Guardian revealed that the University of Michigan paid over $800,000 to Amerishield, parent company to a private security…
Domestic Terrorism Charge Dismissed
Cop City activist Jamie Marsicano still faces RICO charges By Matt Scott A DeKalb County Georgia Superior Court judge dismissed the domestic terrorism charge against Cop City protestor Jamie Marsicano on August 7, saying the…
Mucking Through Local Democracy
Commentary by Gwen Frisbie-Fulton One of my favorite photos of my friend Jason Dunkin is a selfie he took where he’s grinning ear to ear. He’s sitting across from his local city commissioners, who are…
Regulating AI Isn’t Enough
Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools By Jesse Hagopian In April, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stood onstage at a major ed-tech conference in San Diego and declared with conviction that students…
Black-Led, Progressive Homeschool Networks
Rise Amid Book Bans, Attacks on DEI By Ella Fassler Earlier this year in San Antonio, Texas, an eight-year-old delivered a fiery, impassioned speech to the office of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. Introducing herself as…
Rural Communities Need ‘Community Schools’
By Jeff Bryant “It’s just gotten worse,” Catherine Gilmore said when I asked her how her community was faring since we last spoke. In May 2021, I interviewed Gilmore, the community school coordinator at Gibsonton…
Educators Warn Against Child Labor Rollbacks
By Brenda Álvarez When students at Brunswick High School’s alternative education program begin missing class, Rie Larson knows it’s time to ask questions. “Sometimes when we start to notice a student’s drop in attendance, and…
Young Activists Need Civics
Black youth believe in their ability to make change, but our schools aren’t helping them Commentary by Rashid Duroseau and Andrew Wilkes When Black youth appear in public conversations about civics, it’s usually in the…
VCU Backs Down on Speech Suppression
Commentary by Brian Palmer Sereen Haddad, a Virginia Commonwealth University psychology major, won a major battle against her school in July. But the war she’s fighting is far from over. Haddad’s victory came on July…