Australian election: National Tertiary Education Union covers up Labor’s role in university crisis
The NTEU is backing Labor in the face of more than 2,000 job cuts as a direct result of the Albanese government’s cuts to international student enrolments and its continued chronic under-funding of the public universities.
New York City public schools face historic crisis amid federal, state and municipal attacks
New York City’s public education system is facing an impending crisis as federal, state, and local budget cuts converge with a deepening social crisis, threatening essential programs and the futures of hundreds of thousands of students.
Trump plans to shut down Head Start, destroying early education and childcare services
The destruction of the Head Start program, part of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society,” would eliminate education and social services for nearly 800,000 children and result in the loss of a quarter of a million jobs.
Mass protests erupt in high schools in Turkey
Although the immediate cause of the students’ reaction is the exile of their teachers, there is mounting anger over the poor quality of education, lack of a future, growing social inequality and state repression.