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…
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Their Pay Has Stood Still. Now Oklahoma Teachers Could Be the Next to Walk. {#iBelieve}
By DANA GOLDSTEIN MARCH 20, 2018 TULSA, Okla. — When she woke up one morning last week, Tiffany Bell, a teacher at Hamilton Elementary School here, had $35 in her bank account. On take-home pay of $2,200 per month, she supports her husband, a veteran who went back to school, and their three children, all of whom…
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…
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