Nearly 50 ministers on Monday embraced plans for students to boycott at least the first day of Chicago Public Schools classes, a move aimed at ramping up pressure on state officials to address widespread inequities in education funding. The church ...

The new federal money would be small change compared to what the NEA wants to get from states. The union is proposing that federal law require each state to write a "adequacy and equity" plan. The document would detail the inequities in ...