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…
Category: Arming Teachers
The Los Angeles teachers’ strike may have already cost millions. And it’s only Day 2
By Holly Yan, Stephanie Elam and Rosalina Nieves January 16, 2019 Los Angeles (CNN)A massive teachers’ strike calling for millions of dollars more in school funding may have also cost the school district millions of dollars, the superintendent said. But the Los Angeles teachers’ union isn’t backing down. In fact, it wants to “show such a massive presence…
Texas House proposes a massive increase for public school funding
Proposed budget would increase state funds for education by about 17 percent By Edgar Walters January 15, 2019 © 2018 The Texas Tribune House Speaker Dennis Bonnen presiding over his first votes as speaker of the house. Jan. 9, 2019. Miguel Gutierrez Jr. / The Texas Tribune. Miguel Gutierrez Jr. / The Texas Tribune. …
L.A. teachers’ strike: Tens of thousands walk off job in Los Angeles
Leo Rittner Solomon, 6, a student, and Hilda Rodriguez Guzman, right, a parent, react as union president Alex Caputo-Pearl announces that about 30,000 teachers in the nation’s second-largest school district were going on strike Monday. Damian Dovarganes / AP Jan. 14, 2019 By Daniella Silva Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers went on strike Monday…
LA’s Teachers Strike Will Be the Toughest Yet
The Los Angeles teachers’ strike begins today. It’s going to be the most difficult struggle so far in the educators’ revolt sweeping the country. By Eric Blanc January 14, 2019 After 20 months of fruitless contract negotiations, Los Angeles teachers are walking out today. Their strike will be the most bitter battle yet in the…
Long hours, crowded classes, low pay driving Arizona teachers to quit
BY GRISELDA ZETINO UPDATED: JANUARY 10, 2019 Alexis Baich teaches world and American history at Mesa High School. (Photo by Griselda Zetino) PHOENIX — Tiring and exhausting. That’s how Alexis Baich described her first year teaching. “During my first year, I did question whether or not teaching was for me because it is so much work,”…
SC teachers’ patience waning as lawmakers again pledge to fix public education
BY MAAYAN SCHECHTER AND TOM BARTON January 06, 2019 COLUMBIA, SC Two days before S.C. lawmakers return to Columbia with an unprecedented desire to overhaul the state’s public education system, there is no consensus on how to stop the ongoing teacher shortage and fix the state’s K-12 education woes. Influential S.C. House Speaker Jay Lucas,…
Florida Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s system of public education
BY JIM SAUNDERS JANUARY 04, 2019 TALLAHASSEE A fiercely divided Florida Supreme Court on Friday rejected a nearly decade-long lawsuit that challenged whether the state has properly carried out a 1998 constitutional amendment that called for ensuring a “high quality” system of public schools. The decision upheld lower-court rulings and focused heavily on…
Education year in review: Alabama 2018 edition
By Trisha Powell Crain January 1, 2019 From the hiring of a new superintendent to school safety dominating the national conversation to a charter school leading the way, 2018 was a busy year in education in Alabama. Here’s a look back at 2018. Data, data, and more data As is happening nationally, educators and policymakers…
Trump school safety group backs off his call to arm trained teachers
Trump created the school safety commission and asked Betsy DeVos to chair it following the February shooting of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. | Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images By KIMBERLY HEFLING December 19, 2018 A Trump administration school safety panel hardly touched on the role of guns in deadly school shootings…
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