| Syrian Artist Seeks College Education From an Unexpected Place Posted: 02 Apr 2016 11:14 AM PDT  Ahmad Alabdullah was a sophomore studying fine arts at Aleppo University when the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011. Alabdullah eventually fled Aleppo and now lives in Turkey with his family, working several jobs to make ends meet. Alabdullah is one of several students featured on crowdfunding site Iduka, which is working to connect refugees with higher education in Portugal.
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| It’s Not Only About a Salary: Why Chicago’s Teachers Walked Off the Job Posted: 01 Apr 2016 05:08 PM PDT  Nearly 400,000 students were forced to stay home as educators and their allies from Fight for $15 and Black Lives Matter picketed outside schools and shut down streets in downtown Chicago. The city's educators, led by the Chicago Teachers Union, have gripes over the way Chicago Public Schools, which is facing a $1.1 billion operating deficit, has denied them raises. According to a post on the Chicago Teachers Union blog in December, only about one-third of high schools have a librarian, and heavily segregated schools on the South and West sides of the city "have been hit especially hard" by cuts. Sarah Chambers, a special education teacher at Saucedo Elementary on the city's West Side—who is also a member of the Chicago Teachers Union executive board—told Jacobin about the dire situation on her campus, one that is common across the district.
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