Education
Our Best Stories of 2016: Part Three
Our concluding roundup of Capital & Main’s best features of 2016 includes profiles of public school teachers who drive for Uber to make ends meet and the story of one Los Angeles charter school that failed after it chose an ex-football player with no educational experience to run it. See stories in Part One and Part Two.
Phoenix community meeting. (Photo by Antonio Mendoza)
Our concluding roundup of Capital & Main’s best features of the year includes profiles of public school teachers who drive for Uber to make ends meet and the story of one Los Angeles charter school that failed after it chose an ex-football player with no educational experience to run it. See stories in Part One and Part Two.
A Neighborhood Gun Range’s Legacy: Lead Contamination
Mangan Park residents confront Sacramento officials. (Photo by Jessica Obert)
Joe Rubin’s investigation looks at Sacramento’s civic and moral lapses following the discovery of lead contamination in a park located in the middle of a working-class neighborhood.
Debacle: How a Promising Charter School Failed
Robin Urevich tells how a promising teacher-created charter school crashed and burned after a two-year a tug of war for power with administrators and board members.
Moonlighting Teachers Learn Hard Lessons from Uber
Alissa Quart interviews teachers who chose to work part-time for Uber. It seemed like a good idea at the time. (Co-published by The Nation.)
Three Days on the Res: Facing the Dakota Pipeline
Lakota Sioux tepees at the Oceti Sakowin Camp. (Photo by Tony Zinnanti)
Tony Zinnanti gets up close to the people and locales involved in the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
Arizona Rising
The New Southwest. (Photo by Antonio Mendoza)
Maria Bustillos visits Phoenix to talk to community, Latino and labor activists whose 10-year crusade is reinventing politics in the Grand Canyon State. (Co-published by The Nation.)
Inflation Dealing a Gut Punch to Money-Strapped Californians
Blue States Prep for an Onslaught of Abortion Refugees
Why Labor Leader Tefere Gebre Has Brought His Organizing Talents to Greenpeace
Women of Color Will Pay the Steepest Price If Abortion Is Banned
Several States Are Taking the Lead on Restoring Overtime Pay
You Probably Aren’t Getting Paid Overtime. Here’s Why.
Slideshow: Decades of White House Failure on Overtime Pay
Can Biden Sharply Expand Overtime Pay?
Overworked and Underpaid
There’s a Real, Live Plan to End Poverty in California
There’s a Real, Live Plan to End Poverty in California
High-Deductible Health Plans Make Income Inequality Worse
You Probably Aren’t Getting Paid Overtime. Here’s Why.
Forced Arbitration Is Making It Harder for Low-Wage Workers to Seek Justice
Who Will Build California’s Electric Vehicle Charging Stations and Why It Matters
Greening the California Economy
Is Health-Minded, Environmentally Friendly Amy’s Kitchen Harmful to Its Own Workers?
A Watershed for 47,000 SoCal Grocery Workers: The Biggest Raise in Decades
Fixing the Crisis in California’s Nursing Homes
California Oil and Gas Industry Leans on Political Heavyweights to Drill Wells
Excavating the Future: Roberto Flores on Community Self-Determination
Excavating the Future: Odilia Romero on How Indigenous Communities Confronted COVID
Excavating the Future: Author Erin Aubry Kaplan on Gentrification in Black Los Angeles
Excavating the Future: Black Lives Matter’s Melina Abdullah on Redefining Public Safety
Excavating the Future: ‘We Belong on Both Sides of the Border’ Says MacArthur Fellow
The Aftermath of The Huntington Beach Oil Spill
Thousands March to Protect Voting Rights
Visual Black Justice Calls Out Racism During Derek Chauvin Trial
America on Trial
Echo Park Lake Homeless Encampment Faces Eviction
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