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'The Bold Solution We Need': 100+ Scholars Back Sanders Student Debt and Tuition-Free College Plan

Benefits for All or Just Some? Sanders Student Debt Plan Highlights 2020 Debate Over Universal vs. Means-Tested Programs

Jake Johnson, staff writer

While some 2020 Democrats push means-tested policies tailored specifically to low-income Americans, Sen. Bernie Sanders argues universal programs are more just and politically effective

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Financed by Tax on Wall St. Speculators, Sanders Plan Would Wipe Out All $1.6 Trillion in US Student Loan Debt

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"We bailed out Wall Street in 2008. It's time to tax Wall Street's greed to...

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'Crushing Defeat' for DeVos as Federal Judge Rules She Illegally Delayed Relief for Students Defrauded by For-Profit Colleges

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos

"This is a major victory for student borrowers and for anyone who cares about...

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Mick Mulvaney, Acting Director of the Consumer Finanical Protection Bureau

Rebuking Trump CFPB for Only Serving Nation's "Most Powerful Financial Companies," Student Loan Watchdog Resigns

'Call It Like It Is': After Texas Shooting, Progressives Say Refusal to Take on NRA Leading to 'Slaughter After Slaughter'

Betsy DeVos

DeVos 'Corruption Racket' Continues as Education Dept Shuts Down Probes Into Predatory Colleges

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'War on Students': Consumer Advocates Warn Mulvaney's Moves at CFPB Will Lead to 'Open Season on Borrowers'

March for Our Lives

Ahead of 'March for Our Lives,' Student Manifesto Outlines Steps to Eradicate 'Plague of Gun Violence'

'More Evidence Trump Is Scared of the NRA': White House Retreats From Call to Raise Gun Purchasing Age

Teacher on Leave After Allegedly Assaulting Student Who Refused to Stand for Pledge of Allegiance

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Amnesty International - USA

Amnesty International Stands in Solidarity With School Strike for Climate

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Greta Thunberg, Alexandria Villasenor

Think We Should Be at School? Today’s Climate Strike Is the Biggest Lesson of All

Rebecca Solnit

Thank you, Climate Strikers. Your Action Matters and Your Power Will Be Felt

Cynthia Kaufman

Bring Back Pell Grants for Prisoners

Haven Coleman, Bill McKibben

Students are Striking for Action on Climate Change—a Truancy Everyone Should Applaud

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

Teaching More Civics Will Not Save Us From Trump

Steven Singer

Wealth—Not Enrollment in Private School—Increases Student Achievement, According to New Study

Belle Chesler

Students as Teachers: Facing the World Adults Are Wrecking

Abel McDaniels

Teachers and Students Walkout: Call Bullshit on Apartheid Schools in the Nation’s Capital

Gary Olson

A Few Thoughts on the March for Our Lives

Jeff Biggers

My Kid Doesn’t Need Permission To Walk Out