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The more that right-wing groups spend to drive teachers from their unions, the harder educators fight back—and the more they are running for office.

Public funding, private management — these four words sum up American-style privatization whether applied to airports, prisons, or elementary and secondary schools.

By bargaining for and with the larger community, teachers are reinventing collective bargaining.

The sad truth is financial austerity that has driven governments at all levels to skimp on education has had plenty of compliance, if not downright support, from centrist Democrats.

Oklahoma was once a center of left-populism. Could it be that again?