By Maureen Downey 10-28-19 You can’t fix public schools while promoting increased options for families to flee them Brian Kemp arrived in the governor’s office 10 months ago with no history as an education advocate. In his first year in office, he wooed teachers with a pay raise, but dismayed public education supporters with his embrace…
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Many parents are confused about how public education now works in New Orleans, report says
BY DELLA HASSELLE OCT 27, 2019 – 5:00 PM Phylisha Dannel is helped applying online for schools for her kids by Norma Martinez and Latonya Mornay, of EnrollNOLA, during the Urban League of Louisiana’s Schools Expo 2017 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on Saturday, February 4, 2017. People browse the booths during the…
California Teachers Pay For Their Own Substitutes During Extended Sick Leave
May 20, 2019 JULIA MCEVOY Heather Burns at Martin Elementary School in South San Francisco, where she now teaches third grade. Burns was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016 and had to pay for her own substitute while on sick leave. Stephanie Lister/KQED A 40-year-old California law requiring public school teachers on extended…
HBCU advocates fight Senate Bill 278
By Damon Arnold | May 15, 2019 ALBANY, GA (WALB) – Albany leaders and alumni of three South Georgia Historically Black Colleges and Universities are banding together to fight a proposed a state bill. Senate Bill 278 would take the schools out of the University System of Georgia and create a system of its own. Community leaders…
Thousands of Sacramento teachers ready to walk off the job
One-day strike set for Thursday Apr 10, 2019 Mike Luery SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) —Up to 2,300 teachers are poised to walk out of Sacramento City Unified School District schools Thursday for a scheduled strike. Tens of thousands of students and parents are caught in the middle of a bitter dispute. Picket signs were stacked and…
Wake County public schools join list of NC districts closing for May 1 teacher rally
By Kelly Hinchcliffe, April 10, 2019 RALEIGH, N.C. — Wake County Public Schools announced Wednesday afternoon that it will close on May 1, bringing the total to seven of North Carolina’s 115 school districts to announce they are closing for the May 1 teacher rally in Raleigh. Wake County is the state’s largest public school…
CMS to decide later this week whether to close for May 1 teacher action day
BY BRUCE HENDERSON APRIL 09, 2019 THOUSANDS OF EDUCATORS MARCH IN RALEIGH AND DEMAND RESPECT On Wednesday May 16, 2018, the opening day of the legislative session, educators and their supporters from across the state traveled to Raleigh to demand more funding for public education.BY JULIA WALL UP NEXT Republican ads in NC 3rd District…
California’s public schools enrollment down, Hispanic and charter school students on the rise
Detailed CDE ‘snapshot’ for 2018-19 year breaks down enrollment by ethnicity, grade, along with English language acquisition, and can be sorted by county, district, or school By RICHARD BAMMER | April 1, 2019 at 4:38 am The most recent state data for California’s K–12 public schools indicates that overall enrollment is down slightly, while the number of…
Many Texas teachers have second jobs or live paycheck to paycheck. They’re anxiously watching the teacher pay debate.
“I never anticipated that I would take a summer job at Wendy’s just so that I could replace a broken dishwasher,” said one high school English teacher who makes $45,000 per year. BY MARÍA MÉNDEZ APRIL 3, 2019 Houston teacher Brady Mayo moved back in with his parents while he was paying for his kids to…
Kentucky teachers proud of what they accomplished this session, but what’s next?
FRANKFORT — At a glance, their differences were obvious. The women from Louisville were young. They were black. Seated nearby, the women from Eastern Kentucky were older and white. A quick listen and you could hear the differences, too. Different accents. Different life experiences. But if you stayed with them for a while you would…
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