From Vox, Alvin Chang on how 3 decades of tax cuts suffocated public schools. Why are our most important teachers paid the least? Many preschool teachers live on the edge of financial ruin — would improving their training and their pay improve outcomes for their students? Nicholas Cannariato on the teacher dichotomy: Why can they only be Good or Bad? A true labor of love: Sarah Jaffe on why teachers are adopting a more militant politics. Alexia Fernandez Campbell on the bizarre right-wing campaign to discredit striking Arizona teachers: Is it really a protest about school funding, or do teachers have more sinister motives? We don’t need no education: Why Republicans ended up at war with America’s schoolteachers. How liberals learned to love the teachers: It wasn’t so long ago that teachers’ strikes were considered problematic — then Trump came along.
How public schools became a battleground in the Trump era: It’s not just that schools are fighting low funding and mass shootings — they’re also some of the last genuine public squares in this country.
