Students who were to be helped by the Bush and Obama education reforms–minority, poor, disaffected, potential dropouts–are still left behind and left out. The teachers working with these kids need to be a part of the picture.

One month before the midterm elections, hundreds of organizations–many of them major organizations the Democratic Party needs to help them get-out-the-vote (GOTV) for November–will send a message to Democrats: No matter how much you beat upon the base for raising its voice and offering healthy criticism, progressives will still vote for you.

Obama Admin. To DC Voters: STFU

Originally posted at Citizen Orange.

The fate of almost a million lives could be decided in the next six hours.  As a voter, as a millenial, as a migrant, as a Guatemalan, I’m writing to say that I will be watching along with the vast majority of those who will determine the future of the United States of America. 

If you already haven’t heard already, Harry Reid is going to offer the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act up as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.  The Senate is scheduled to vote on taking up the Act tomorrow at 2:15 p.m.  If you haven’t called you’re Senator yet in the support of the DREAM Act please do so now by calling:

888-254-5087

It is imperative that you focus on these Senators.  If you’ve called already, call again.  If you’ve called again, ask five friends to do the same.  If you’ve done all that, here are some more actions you can take.

More than 100 candidates have endorsed the Green New Deal, a 10-point program to create economic prosperity together with ecological sustainability. Join them today.

Of late, the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee has been investigating the booming multi-billion dollar for-profit college industry — think Kaplan University or DeVry for example. What it has found thus far is not pretty.

Jim Moss’s response to the “homework assignment”, the Three Things Project for Labor Day.

DREAM Act student, Saad Nabeel, tells his story in a letter to Obama.

We need a better education plan in South Carolina.

Today, President Obama came to my town to give an invite-only speech at the University of Texas. Lacking an invite, I wondered what people with invites had to say about the Afghanistan War. Here’s what I found: All the people who had tickets to the event who consented to be interviewed and who gave an [...]