By Moriah Balingit March 29 at 2:35 PM Arizona teachers, among the lowest paid in the country, are threatening to strike if state lawmakers do not raise their salaries and restore dramatic funding cuts that schools have endured. Teachers, who organized a grassroots campaign on social media, are demanding a 20 percent raise and restoration of…
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Arizona teachers wear red, talk strike amid frustration over low wages
Ricardo Cano and Angel Mendoza, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 6:00 a.m. MT March 7, 2018 | Updated 7:40 p.m. MT March 7, 2018 Arizona teachers wore red to school Wednesday in protest of what many described as the state’s lethargic response to a teacher crisis that’s driven thousands of qualified educators out of the classroom. A group of Arizona teachers spontaneously…
West Virginia teachers will strike for eighth day after legislative impasse {#iBelieve}
By Sarah Jorgensen and Ralph Ellis, CNN Updated 10:54 AM ET, Mon March 5, 2018 West Virginia public school teachers will strike for an eighth day Monday because the state legislature didn’t meet their demand for higher pay and better benefits over the weekend. All 55 counties announced school closures for Monday. About 20,000 teachers…
Court case could ‘financially cripple’ California unions
BY ADAM ASHTON February 26, 2018 12:01 AM Thirteen years ago, California’s teacher union went toe-to-toe with the state’s movie star governor and crushed him at the ballot box, funding almost half of the $121 million campaign that swamped his proposals to revamp tenure and restrict government spending. The rejection of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2005 initiatives…
West Virginia Teacher Strike Enters Its Seventh Day {#iBelieve}
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and JESS BIDGOODMARCH 2, 2018 CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A statewide teacher strike in West Virginia entered its seventh day on Friday, with teachers defying efforts by the state’s governor and union leaders to end the walkout with a deal to raise pay. Earlier this week, James C. Justice, the governor, announced a plan to raise…
West Virginia educators go on strike, closing all public schools in the state
EMILY C. SINGER Feb 26th 2018 6:44PM Teachers in West Virginia are striking for the third consecutive day, closing public schools in all of the state’s 55 counties over low pay and benefits. Their strike comes as President Donald Trump argues for arming teachers in the wake of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School…
Every Child Can Learn – and Deserves the Opportunity to Do So #iBelieve
By Renée A. Middleton One of AACTE’s most important goals is to support members in preparing educators for highly diverse schools. Teachers must work with students from different racial, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, as well as students with varying abilities – and varying command of the English language. The notion that educators will only teach one…
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