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Students and teachers picket Detroit Public Schools headquarters in 2016.
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Teachers, parents and students are joining together to fight for a publicly owned education system. Will it be education that serves the people or the corporations? On these pages, they share their thinking on this fight. Please send your thoughts and articles to the People’s Tribune. — The Editors
 

Teachers and activists: Keeping the ‘public’ in education


 

Government declares war on education!


 

Say No to Charter Community Colleges


 

Fighting for education justice in New Orleans


 

Official who decimated schools hired as school operations manager


 

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