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Spring 2026
Learning Under Occupation: Community Resilience in Twin Cities Schools
By Jey Ehrenhalt
A Minneapolis resident describes what it’s like to live under ICE’s Operation Metro Surge and the crucial role teachers and schools have played in building resistance.
Twin Cities Educators Resisting for the Common Good
By Sarah Jaffe
Jaffe describes the rise of social justice teacher unionism in the Twin Cities and how unions have confronted ICE.
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Rethinking Schools began in 1986, when a group of Milwaukee education activists — teachers, teacher educators, and community members — met to talk about how they could bring more critical voices into the conversation about public schools and libraries. These founding Rethinking Schools editors saw a school curriculum that was conservative, dumbed-down, and dominated by corporate-produced textbooks. Inappropriate standardized testing was rampant. Racial bias infected every level of schooling.