In this week's roundup of education news: The nation's first strike at a charter school network. We also look at two new reports.

In this week's roundup: News from the Ed Department; more parents are taking out loans for their kids in college; and two lawsuits were also filed this week.

From teachers running for office to ballot measures that can add billions to public education, here's our guide to how the issue is playing out.

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A bomb threat, a march turned violent and a militant black power group all weighed heavily on the civil rights leader during his last speech in 1968, says Redemption author Joseph Rosenbloom.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to writer Ta-Nehisi Coates about his cover story in The Atlantic magazine about Donald Trump, and how voters reacted to the first African-American president.

High school journalist Teddy Fischer saw Defense Secretary James Mattis' phone number in a photograph and on a whim, texted him an interview request. It worked.