April 26, 20185:01 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition https://www.npr.org/people/302894536/anya-kamenetz As the wave of teacher walkouts moves to Arizona and Colorado this week, an NPR/Ipsos poll shows strong support among Americans for improving teachers’ pay and for their right to strike. Just 1 in 4 Americans believe teachers in this country are paid fairly. Nearly two-thirds approve of national teachers’ unions, and…
Category: Educators Protest
Public school teachers could face fines, jail time for striking if new bill passes
By: Kelly Ragan, Published 4:27 p.m. MT April 23, 2018 | Updated 5:01 p.m. MT April 23, 2018 Two Republican senators proposed a bill Friday that seeks to prohibit public school teacher strikes. The bill came as Poudre School District and others announced they would cancel class Friday to accommodate large numbers of teachers who called out of work…
Republican lawmakers want to prohibit Colorado teachers from striking, with potential fines and jail time for violators
Jeffco Public Schools teachers are planning to walk out Thursday, while Denver Public Schools teachers are planning to demonstrate on Friday By JESSE PAUL | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: April 23, 2018 at 9:56 am | UPDATED: April 23, 2018 at 11:11 pm Two Republican state lawmakers have introduced a bill seeking to prohibit Colorado teachers from striking and make…
Everything you need to know about why Colorado teachers are walking out of classes and onto the Capitol
What do the teachers want? What have they been doing? And why is there a bill trying to ban teachers from striking? By DANIKA WORTHINGTON | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: April 24, 2018 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: April 24, 2018 at 8:16 am Teachers are normally at the front of the classroom, scribbling on the board. Or monitoring students…
Teachers protest funding gap, some PERA changes at Capitol
About 400 educators, many from Englewood, voiced opinion on public-pension system and school funding Ellis Arnold earnold@coloradocommunitymedia.com Performances of teachers singing a 1980s rock hit in protest have swept the nation — from Oklahoma to West Virginia to Kentucky — and now, the show came to Colorado. “We’re not gonna take it — no, we…
Teachers protest Clark County district’s decision to fight pay raises
By Amelia Pak-Harvey / Las Vegas Review-Journal April 17, 2018 – 9:42 am Shadow Ridge High School educators protested against pay freezes before school on Tuesday morning, matching the spirit of teacher protests in other states while working around Nevada’s anti-strike law. Roughly a dozen educators and a few students gathered at a…
Colorado teachers stage rally at statehouse to lobby for higher pay
By NOELLE PHILLIPS and JESSE PAUL | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: April 16, 2018 at 10:25 am | UPDATED: April 16, 2018 at 6:04 pm All classes in Englewood were canceled Monday after more than 150 teachers in that district announced plans to walk out of classes Chanting “You left me no choice, I have to use my teacher voice!” hundreds of Colorado…
#blackout Bevin: Governor’s words prompting another teacher protest
BY VALARIE HONEYCUTT SPEARS April 15, 2018 07:23 PM Updated April 15, 2018 07:26 PM Some educators on social media said they would wear black on Monday as a show of solidarity against what they viewed as Gov. Matt Bevin’s negative comments about teachers. On Friday, in a television interview, Bevin made the latest in…
Teachers in Colorado Protest for Better Pay as Oklahoma Teachers Head Home Victorious
By MOLLY OLMSTEAD APRIL 17, 201811:40 AM Thousands rallied at the Oklahoma state Capitol building during the third day of a statewide education walkout on April 4, 2018 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Scott Heins/Getty Images The teacher protest movement that led to victories in several red states in past weeks has reached the Democrat-led state of…
An Arts Education Crisis? How Potential Federal Cuts Could Decimate School Arts Programs
January 29, 2017 KEVIN MAHNKEN n 2013, the National Endowment for the Arts and its neighbor, the National Endowment for the Humanities, may have assumed they had suffered their final indignity at the hands of Donald Trump. The developer had secured a lease to build what would become the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.’s Old Post…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 