Budget cut struggles

New York City public schools are run more like a corporation than a public service. Too often, students come in last place.

This weekend's gathering of anti-cuts activists in Los Angeles can be an important step for the movement if we understand what it can accomplish.

An activist at the University of California Santa Cruz responds to one assessment of the March 4 Day of Action to defend public education.

California budget cuts activists are resisting university administrators’ attempts to divide them--and they're asking for your support.

Madison schools are facing a $30 million shortfall for the 2010-11 budget--but that gap could be closed if corporations paid their fair share.

Students and supporters protested at a board meeting against plans to close the Alameda Community College's child care center.

A month after the March 4 Day of Action, several dozen people turned out for a speak-out against cuts in education at the University of Massachusetts.

In Wisconsin, the tax burden is falling heavily on the working class as corporations' share of taxes keeps declining. It's time to change that.

The president of a union of academic student employees at the University of Washington talks about the fight for a fair contract and against budget cuts.

The struggle for the future of higher education is heating up at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, where students are battling cuts and fee hikes.

Students who occupied a building at San Francisco State last December are being made to pay a fine--to cover the administration's bill for police.

The ideas of some New York City student activists that led to confrontations at Hunter College on March 4 need to be discussed and debated.

Nearly 8,000 students, faculty and staff from across California marched in the state capital to oppose budget cuts to education.

University of Cincinnati students are organizing against tuition hikes and the administration's backward spending priorities.

I hope the vocal visibility of March 4 is only the beginning of sustained pressure in the fight to fund education.

Peter Robinson scoffed at March 4 protesters for displaying an "entitlement mentality." Then again, the man wrote speeches for Ronald Reagan.

An activist at UC Santa Cruz describes how the movement organized for a successful student strike during the March 4 Day of Action.

A public school teacher who was stuck on the freeway when protesters took it over on March 4 tells what actually took place.

Staff and students at San Francisco's Mission High School worked hard to forge the solidarity that made the March 4 Day of Action a success.

A librarian at a California college and participant in the March 4 Day of Action defends the struggle from the complaints of a Wall Street Journal commentator.