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Bella Dodd (née Visono; 1904 [1] – 29 April 1969 [2]) was a teacher, lawyer, and labor union activist, member of the Communist Party of America (CPUSA) and New York City Teachers Union (TU) in the 1930s and 1940s ("one of Communism's most strident voices"), and vocal anti-communist after she had a big conversion after meeting Fulton J. Sheen, Bishop of Rochester, New York.
Pyle initially began the work in response to textbook changes made by the Texas State Board of Education in 2010. Since then, the classroom has become a battleground in many red states, and ...
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down both a state statute denying funding for education of undocumented immigrant children in the United States and an independent school district's attempt to charge an annual $1,000 tuition fee for each student to compensate for lost state funding. [1]
The Workers' Education Bureau of America was founded in 1921 by a group of United States-based unionists and educators. [citation needed]WEB received financial, political, and consultative support from American Federation of Labor (AFL) leaders, including Samuel Gompers, William Green, and Matthew Woll, making it "the unofficial educational arm" of the AFL. [2]
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The Education Department (ED) is discharging $1.1 billion for 115,000 defrauded former students of the for-profit ITT Technical Institute (ITT) after a new review of existing regulations.
To unite teachers and other education workers to struggle for their democratic rights and economic welfare. To advance a nationalist, scientific and mass-oriented education. To encourage active and dynamic participation of teachers and other education workers in social transformation.
The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to ...