Backlash Politics and the Dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education
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The Chicago Teachers Union Is Showing Us How to Fight Trump
By Adam Sanchez
Sanchez discusses the transformative new contract won by the Chicago Teachers Union and why their struggle serves as a blueprint for others in this moment.
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A 5th-grade teacher engages students in a unit on the forced deportation of 2 million Mexicans and Mexican Americans from the United States during the Great Depression.
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