BY SAMIR SONTI February 4, 2019 The Los Angeles teachers’ strike is a model for a popular, militant working-class movement advancing a broad vision of education justice. That model can be replicated everywhere. Educators, parents, students, and supporters of the Los Angeles teachers’ strike rally on January 22, 2019 in downtown Los Angeles. Scott Heins /…
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Deborah Gist Used to Fight Teachers Unions. Now She’s Marching With Them.
ULSA, Oklahoma — On a fall morning in 2018, veteran technology teacher Abraham Kamara was working with his robotics team at Memorial Junior High School when Tulsa school superintendent Deborah Gist entered the classroom with a TV news crew. Gist was there to surprise Kamara with the school year’s first Golden Apple Award, recognizing him…
LA teachers reach tentative deal to end strike
BY BRETT SAMUELS – January 22, 2019 Los Angeles teachers struck a tentative deal on Tuesday to end a strike that had stretched into a second week in the nation’s second-largest school district. The Los Angeles Unified School District said in a tweet that it had reached a “tentative agreement” with the teachers’ union, but did…
Los Angeles teachers strike to go into second week even if agreement reached, union says
The union and LA Unified School District are at odds over issues including salary, class size and support staff. Striking public school teachers and their supporters march during the 34th annual Kingdom Day Parade on Martin Luther King Jr Day in Los Angeles on January 21, 2019.Robyn Beck / AFP – Getty Images Jan. 21,…
More strikes ahead? Teachers say they love their jobs but can’t pay their bills, poll shows
Susan Page and Marina Pitofsky, Jan. 22, 2019 https://uw-media.usatoday.com/embed/video/1667902002?sitelabel=reimagine&placement=snow-smallarticleattophtml5&keywords=teaching%2Clos-angeles-unified-school-district%2Ceducational-testing%2Cstress%2Coverall-negative%2Canxiety%2Cschool%2Ceducation%2Csurvey%2Cstrikes%2Copinion-polls%2Cfamily-forward%2Cin-the-know&simpleTarget=disasters&simpleExclusion=disasters&pagetype=story&cst=news%2Fnational&ssts=news%2Fnation&series= Their passion for teaching and children may be the only thing keeping them invested in the profession. Spent a day with teachers across America. Jarrad Henderson, USA Today Teachers love their jobs, but they also say that they have the right, and the reasons, to walk out on them. An exclusive USA TODAY/Ipsos…
The LA teachers’ strike has cost $97M. Now both sides are negotiating again
By Holly Yan, January 17, 2019 Tens of thousands of educators strike in California After an apparent dayslong game of “chicken,” the Los Angeles teachers union and the school district went back to the negotiating table Thursday. Talks resumed for the first time since more than 30,000 educators walked off the job this week to demand smaller…
2 days remain for Denver Public Schools, teachers union to reach deal
BY KRISTIN HAUBRICH January 16, 2019 DPS, teachers union remain far apart as strike looms DENVER — The clock is winding down. Only two days remain for the Denver Public School District and its teachers union to reach a compromise and avoid having more than 5,000 educators walk out on the job. After Tuesday’s negotiations, the school districts…
California Today: The L.A. Teachers’ Union Leader on What Would End the Strike
By Jill Cowan Jan. 17, 2019 Yesterday, we talked to Austin Beutner, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, about the city’s teachers’ strike that has all but ground the operations of the nation’s second-largest school system to a halt. Today, we hear from the other side. My colleague Jennifer Medina talked to Alex Caputo-Pearl, the president…
Teachers at four charter schools in Chicago set Feb. 5 strike date if no contract reached
By: Juan Perez Jr. January 17, 2019 Teachers affiliated with the Chicago International Charter School network say they will go on strike Feb. 5 unless there is a breakthrough in contract negotiations, a move that would affect about 2,200 students at four of the organization’s campuses. That leaves a little more than two weeks for…
Enrollment triples, location expands for Jackson Public Schools virtual school
By Brianne Twiddy January 15, 2019 JACKSON, MI – South Central Michigan Virtual isn’t an alternative school, but it is an alternative to traditional schools. Traditional classes can be too fast, too slow or not challenging enough to some students, SCMV director Fred Parker said. SCMV is part of Jackson Public Schools. Its full-time virtual classes allow…
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