It’s no exaggeration to say our country appears to be losing the battle against childhood obesity. According to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the nation’s largest public health organization, the number of children who are overweight or obese

On the fifth day of the 2012/2013 school year, 29,000 Chicago teachers did not report to their classrooms, abruptly halting the education of 350,000 mostly poor, black students. On the second day of the strike a group of Baltimore teachers gathered outside the

On the opening night of the 2012 Democratic National Convention First Lady Michelle Obama joined the ranks of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., William Wilberforce, John F. Kennedy and other extraordinary public speakers.

“Nearly $500,000 in charges include expensive dinners, extensive travel and student lunch at Hooter's,” reads the Baltimore Sun’s headline from its latest investigative report on questionable use of public school funds. According to the Sun’s article, top city school officials defended