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Steve Teare

Author: Steve Teare

Steve Teare is an illustrator and educator living in Philadelphia, PA. He is the author of the graphic novel Back and Forth, the short story The Spider Grandmother, and the story Surviving Life Under the Khmer Rouge.

A Prison of Fees

by Steve Teare

Posted on July 10, 2020July 15, 2020

Prison phone calls and texts have been outsourced for profit, leaving incarcerated people the victims of price-gouging.

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Sleeping Isn’t a Crime

by Steve Teare

Posted on April 9, 2018

How we’ve criminalized a basic human need in order to target the poor, vulnerable, and homeless.

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The Kids Are Getting Organized Against Mass Shootings

by Steve Teare

Posted on March 12, 2018

They’re scared, but they’re fighting back: a walkout on the 14th, and a strike on the 24th.

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The Night The Block Burned Down: Philadelphia’s MOVE Bombing

by Steve Teare

Posted on December 7, 2017

How the Philadelphia police leveled a whole block to take down an unlikely messiah figure.

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The Myth of the American Public School Is Crumbling

by Steve Teare

Posted on August 28, 2017

They’re still largely a 19th-century environment, and badly need a change.

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It Isn’t Independence Day For Everyone

by Steve Teare

Posted on July 4, 2017

If the British had won the Revolutionary War, things might be very different for Native Americans.

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The Marketing Pyramid Behind Betsy DeVos’ Wealth

by Steve Teare

Posted on March 10, 2017

The new Secretary of Education is using her Amway fortune to transform public schools

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How Charter Schools Are Transforming the Education Landscape

by Steve Teare

Posted on December 16, 2016

They are championed and vilified by many, but what’s it like to teach at a charter school?

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