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Supreme Court May Soon Ban Affirmative Action — Here’s What That Means
A racial justice group is urging colleges to reveal their plans for diversity on campus if affirmative action is banned.
The Right Wing’s Latest Target in Its War on Education? Teaching Climate Change.
Climate change education is in the right’s crosshairs just as the movement to teach it is getting off the ground.
Rutgers Academic Workers Are Striking for the Future of Public Education
Donna Murch outlines the historic and ongoing labor struggle at Rutgers University.
DeSantis’s Board of Education Nominees Are Steeped in Far Right Dark Money
The dark-money funded extremists appointed to the board by Ron DeSantis will wield power over Florida's K-12 schools.
The Right Wing Is Waging a Dirty War Against History and Education
In the contemporary U.S., an authoritarian politics of disappearance manifests in new ways every week.
FL Students Protest GOP Bill to Eliminate Diversity Programs on State Campuses
A recent poll found that 61 percent of Floridians oppose the bill, which is backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
House Republicans Pass First National Bill Targeting Transgender Youth
Though the bill is unlikely to advance in the Senate, it represents an ominous moment in anti-trans legislation.
Principal Fired Over Parent Complaints on Lesson Showing Michelangelo’s “David”
The Florida public charter school that forced former principal Hope Carrasquilla to resign has far right connections.
Local Efforts to Resist Right-Wing Attacks on Education Need National Support
Local fights are intensifying as right-wing assaults on education build on the panic created over critical race theory.
New College of Florida Is DeSantis’s Launchpad for Attack on Higher Education
Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed six trustees to the New College of Florida to quash its progressive curriculum.