BY MORGAN GSTALTER – 04/09/18 10:43 AM EDT Education Secretary Betsy DeVos criticized Oklahoma teachers who are on strike over school funding cuts, telling them to “serve the students,” according to the Dallas Morning News. “I think about the kids,” DeVos said last week while touring a Dallas middle school. “I think we need to stay focused on what’s right for kids. And…
Category: Educators Protest
Oklahoma teachers strike for 2nd day, canceling class for at least 230,000 students {#iBelieve}
Kaila White and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY NetworkPublished 9:32 a.m. ET April 3, 2018 OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma teachers continued to rally Tuesday, shuttering many schools for a second day to demand higher pay and education funding, in an effort that also recently engulfed West Virginia, Kentucky and Arizona. Oklahoma teachers won raises last week averaging 16%, or…
Why are teachers protesting in Oklahoma, Kentucky and other states? {#iBelieve}
By Abby HamblinContact Reporter Educators in Oklahoma and Kentucky could be seen all over social media on Monday as they skipped school or used their spring break vacations to march in protest of changes to their pensions and advocate for more school funding. The teachers and their supporters were inspired by their colleagues who…
Kentucky, Oklahoma teachers rally as rebellion grows {#iBelieve}
By Sean Murphy and Bruce Schreiner, The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY — The state Capitol in Kentucky filled with teachers protesting pension changes and demanding generous school funding Monday, and thousands of Oklahoma educators walked out of classrooms in the latest evidence of teacher rebellion in some Republican-led states. Many Oklahoma schools were closed Monday, and…
From teens to teachers, activism stirs the electorate {#iBelieve}
by Stephen Collinson, Updated 1:02 AM ET, Tue April 3, 2018 It’s too early to declare a season of American revolt, but forces of activism and protest are stirring across the country that may yet nurture a genuine political pivot point. Tens of thousands of teachers left their classrooms behind Monday to rally at state capitols in…
Kentucky teachers’ strike closes schools across the state
BY JOHN BOWDEN – 03/30/18 09:48 AM EDT Schools in eight Kentucky school districts were closed Friday as teachers across the state protested Republican changes to their pension system, CBS News reports. In Lexington and Louisville — the state’s two largest school districts — hundreds of teachers took sick days or refused to show up for work after state lawmakers…
N.H. Public School Officials Decry ‘Education Savings Accounts’ Bill
By JASON MOON • 6 HOURS AGO Superintendents, school board members, teachers, and parents held a press conference Thursday morning to voice their concerns about a bill that would create “education freedom savings accounts.” The bill, known as Senate Bill 193, would allow parents to use public money to educate their kids outside of public schools, including…
Arizona teachers, among the nation’s lowest paid, threaten to strike {#iBelieve}
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…
Oklahoma teachers dismiss proposed pay raise, plan to hold walkout {#iBelieve}
BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN – 03/29/18 07:04 PM EDT Teachers in Oklahoma are planning to hold a state-wide walkout on Monday, saying a pay raise passed by the state isn’t enough. The Oklahoma Education Association (OEA), the states’ largest teachers union, said that the wage hike is “a truly historic moment” but that it is “incomplete,” CNN reported. OEA President Alicia Priest said…
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