Author: Larry Strauss

Politicians hopping on parental rights bandwagon exploit families’ real concerns to wage culture war against students and teachers.

Too many see homelessness as threats to property values and tourism, and as potential crime, rather than as America’s economic and social failure.

The school at which I teach has become a school of choice, an alternative to inferior and sometimes perilous inner-city neighborhood high schools.

Our students should never have had to depend on the selflessness or sacrifice of suckers like me to receive a good quality education.

At 22, I refused to wear the ‘I love my gay dad’ shirt my father tried to give me for a Pride Parade in Los Angeles. I wish I had kept it.