North American Education Issues

Kansas Board of Education removes evolution from science curriculum

By Jerry White, August 13, 1999

The Kansas Board of Education voted Wednesday to delete virtually all references to evolution, natural selection and the origins of the universe from the state's science curriculum. The decision repre...

Task Force calls for major attacks on City University of New York

Crisis threatens public higher education

By Fred Mazelis, July 19, 1999

The report issued last month by the Mayor's Advisory Task Force on the City University of New York provides graphic evidence of the crisis of the public higher education system in the financial and cu...

A letter from a Harlem teacher: The crisis of funding in New York City schools

June 9, 1999

To the Editors, WSWS:

Mayor to New York schools: "It's not the money"

By Allen Whyte, June 5, 1999

The results of a new type of New York State comprehensive reading test, given to students in January, were released last week. A staggering two-thirds of New York City's fourth graders failed to meet ...

New York City schools crisis continues

By Fred Mazelis, May 24, 1999

Last week the New York City Board of Education approved a $6.9 billion school construction plan which will do almost nothing to meet the urgent needs of over one million students.

Detroit schools takeover approved by Michigan legislature

By Walter Gilberti and Lina Jones, April 6, 1999

Following the passage last week, by the Michigan House of Representatives, of a final version of the "school reform bill" aimed at taking over the Detroit Public School system, Detroit Mayor Dennis Ar...

Graduate students strike at the University of Michigan

By a correspondent, March 12, 1999

Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, members of the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), an affiliate of the Michigan Federation of Teachers, staged a stri...

State takeover of Detroit schools imminent

By Walter Gilberti and Lina Jones, February 27, 1999

A bill awaiting approval by the Michigan state legislature would empower Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer to take over the running of the city's public schools. This would involve the removal of current sc...