Six-year old Meghan Lloyd-Winstanley sits in a plastic chair, looking down at her hands, as her mother, Teasha, stands above her recounting a laundry list of problems.
If you really cared about wages of the working poor -- including the Latino working poor -- you'd want to make sure that this wave of 12 million illegals was the last wave.
If passed, Measure E would be a good start to helping repair the damage from the state budget cuts that have devastated our city's public schools.
The HeArt Project is designed specifically for kids who have struggled in traditional educational environments and are at risk of dropping out of high school.
As someone who is almost always capable of maintaining good cheer and enjoying myself, the tediousness of entering numbers into Quicken and doing the checks and re-checks is excruciating.
Day after day, Christina Lebron walked through the gloomy hallways of her Brooklyn high school, the drab beige walls somehow magnifying her depressing...
PHILADELPHIA -- Who knew a school cafeteria could be so much fun? A space where hundreds of Philadelphia charter school students have been eating the...
Challenge the system that allows factory farms to profit off selling unhealthy food to children.
Michelle Obama's recent decision to make childhood obesity her personal cause struck me deeply. Childhood obesity isn't just a public health issue, it's a social justice issue.
I recently wrote about new challenges to school integration in two North Carolina school districts. The South has been the region that made the most p...
If it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a village to fail one. In this failure, we are all culpable, whether for our actions or for inaction that has allowed the status quo to become mediocrity.
The percentage of public schools where more than three quarters of students are eligible for free or reduced price lunch – a key indicator of po...
While the DREAM Act has inspired bold activism led by educators and students, its status as a pillar of the immigration reform movement may be somewhat undercut by the taint of the military recruitment machine.
With music education in danger as funding gets cut, organizations like VH1 Save the Music and Music Unites are more important than ever. Founded in ...
What's in a name? Nowadays, if it's a school, the name might point to a sea change in what we have always thought public education was all about.
Should we be further exposing our school kids to commercialization -- even if it means there's some extra cash for school districts at the end of the day?
The Bloomberg-Klein machine that runs, and is destroying, the public school system has made some powerful enemies, including the students from University Heights High School in the Bronx.
The children presented "Big Books" about the amazing potato, the impact of the famine, Irish emigration, and famous Americans of Irish ancestry to President McAleese of Ireland.
By incorporating their own conservative values into guidelines for history classes, the Texas Board of Education may force the entire nation to adopt their right-wing re-write of history.
JACKSON, Miss. — A rural Mississippi school district that was sued by a lesbian student who wanted to bring a same-sex date to the high school p...
More and more cellular antennas are popping up in neighborhoods to support a growing number of cell phone users. We are living in a sea electronic radiation and the health risk to children is getting worse.
Governor David Paterson thinks he knows what's on New Yorkers' minds. On Monday, the governor predicted that voters across the state would reject tax increases for local school budgets.
There is nothing more important to our economy than public education. If we can find money for bankers and auto dealers, we can find money for our students.
Undocumented immigrants contribute to New York as workers, consumers and taxpayers; as such, they must be fully included in our city's census tally.
We shouldn't be so quick to close schools when we hear that they're failing, rather we should be asking what we can do to help a community to address deeper problems that impact the classroom.
