The status quo — overcrowded classrooms, a shortage of permanent teachers, turnover and burnout — is no longer acceptable. By David Negaard / May 14, 2018 Today’s Hawaii public school students are tomorrow’s residents, voters, employees, consumers…but the way things are going, they won’t be residents of Hawaii. With high and rising cost of housing, limited employment…
Category: Accountability
EDUCATION Classroom teacher’s new task: Bring educators’ voice to the state policy arena
Jackie Valley May 14th, 2018 – 2:00am Stacey Dallas Johnston always has considered herself an ambassador for education. A longtime Clark County School District teacher, Johnston married a fellow educator. She has mentored six student teachers. And she can’t contain her enthusiasm when former students announce their plans to become teachers. “I honestly, truly believe…
NC’s average teacher pay is $51,214. How many teachers make that?
By Kelly Hinchcliffe, WRAL education reporter RALEIGH, N.C. — In March, the state education department released the new figure – North Carolina’s average teacher pay reached $51,214 this year, the first time it has surpassed $50,000. Media outlets, including WRAL News, reported the salary estimate. Soon after, comments came streaming in to the WRAL newsroom, disputing the…
Cooper calls for freezing some tax cuts to give teachers raises
By Matthew Burns, WRAL.com senior producer/politics editor, & Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter RALEIGH, N.C. — Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday called for freezing tax cuts supposed to take effect next year for businesses and wealthy individuals to free up money to give every public school teacher in North Carolina a raise of at least…
Organizer: Teacher rally will be ‘something Raleigh has never seen’
By Natalie Matthews, WRAL.com web editor, and Kelly Hinchcliffe, WRAL education reporter RALEIGH, N.C. — So far, 26 school districts across North Carolina have canceled classes next Wednesday as anywhere from 10,000 to 15,000 teachers plan to march to the Legislative Building then rally on Bicentennial Plaza. Groups raise money to ensure Durham school students don’t…
Roster of NC school closings keeps growing as teachers prepare for May 16 rally
BY T. KEUNG HUI AND ANN DOSS HELMS May 08, 2018 04:29 PM Updated 39 minutes ago More than half of North Carolina’s public school students will not have classes on May 16 with more school districts weighing Friday whether to cancel classes due to an exodus of teachers going to a rally planned…
Triad educators outline goals for teacher rally
May 11, 2018 Steve King Reporter WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Local educators have outlined their goals for attending the March for Students and Rally for Respect in Raleigh on Wednesday. About 1,600 school district staff members from Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools will be absent on Wednesday during the rally. For that reason, school district leaders announced school…
‘Red for Ed’ movement kindles political fire in educators
By: Carmen Forman and Paulina Pineda Arizona Capitol Times May 10, 2018 Jennifer Samuels took a heightened interest in state politics last year when her representative, House Majority Leader John Allen, said teachers were taking second jobs so they could buy boats. Now, the eighth grade English teacher wants to teach him a lesson. Samuels, a Democrat,…
Teachers Are Leading the Revolt Against Austerity
The strikes aren’t just about pay. They’re a rejection of tax cuts for the wealthy and a rallying cry for public goods and services. By Jane McAlevey In less than three months, rank-and-file teachers and educational support staff in five states—West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Colorado and Arizona—have turned the entire country into their classroom. They haven’t…
Classes cancelled May 16 so teachers can rally in Raleigh
Board Vice Chair Carolyn Carpenter and Chair Cindy Fertenbaugh discuss making Wednesday, May 16 an optional teacher workday. The Cabarrus County Board of Education made the decision during its work session on Monday, May 7. Erin Kidd May 10, 2018 CONCORD— Cabarrus County Schools added its name to the list of districts that will be…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 