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NCSC Op-ED about school discipline from the January 20, 2004 New York Times
Listen to WBAI panel on school violence featuring NCSC's Mike Eskenazi

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Group Wants Parent, Student Unions To Have Say on Schools
A sun article on parent and student unions.
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Education advocates form task force to examine school system

NEW YORK (AP) _ Education activists and school reform experts are forming a task force to study ways of redesigning the city's mayor-run school system so that it is based on a "human rights framework," organizers announced Tuesday. Newsday Inc.   View Article.

Big expectations for after-school hours
By Teresa Mendez, this piece from the June 28, 2005 Christian Science Monitor looks at the realities of after-shool programs such as the Virtual Y. Christian Science Monitor

Toward Education Justice
Can parent and community groups keep the 'No Child Left Behind' Act on track? An editorial from Education Week by NCSC Executive Director John Beam.
Although federal legislation requires that all of Baltimore's public school classrooms be staffed with certified teachers by 2005, a community group says the city system is far from achieving that goal.
 
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