Updated Oct 14, 2020; Posted Oct 14, 2020 By Sarah Whites-Koditschek A group of Montgomery teachers are taking sick days in protest of the district’s in-person reopening this week. “It’s not safe,” said Tynisa Williams, a teacher at Brewbaker Middle School who is protesting the district’s re-opening by staying home. “We were not given a plan for…
Category: Funding For Education
Alabama’s state school authority preps $1.5 billion deal, its largest ever
By Shelly Sigo October 14, 2020 The state of Alabama’s most prolific issuer is preparing to sell its largest bond sale ever, in part, to take advantage of the low interest rate environment. The Alabama Public School and College Authority plans to issue nearly $1.5 billion of tax-exempt and taxable, new and refunding bonds, around Oct….
Alabama voters approve an amendment to remove racist language from state constitution
Brian Lyman MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama voters Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment that could lead to the removal of racist language from the state Constitution. As of 8:48 a.m. Wednesday, Amendment 4 had 1,169,206 yes votes (67%) in incomplete, unofficial returns. About 585,384 Alabamians (33%) voted against the measure, a symbolic measure that proponents said would allow the state…
Alabama teacher speaks out against unsafe conditions and schools reopening
Emma Arceneaux November 6, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic continues to spread throughout Alabama, with the past two weeks seeing roughly 1,600 new cases per day and a test positivity rate of 22.6 percent. Since the start of the pandemic, 198,000 people have been infected and 3,006 have died. Under these conditions, educators are increasingly enraged…
Tax increase for Montgomery Public Schools is a challenge well met, and a cause for new hope
On September 11, 2015, I spoke to the Montgomery Lions Club about a book on the founding of Lee High School, which I’d co-authored with several River Region educators, including retired Superintendent of Education Clinton Carter and former Trinity School Head Kerry Palmer, now dean of education at Troy University. Since I’m a product of…
America’s segregated schools: We can’t live together until we learn together
The main reason school districts have been gerrymandered to perpetuate segregation is the tacit, and at times explicit, approval of people of means. Stefan Lallinger June 23, 2020 Would George Floyd be alive today had he and Derek Chauvin grown up together and attended the same schools? It’s an impossible question to answer, but it’s an…
Union Preserves Teacher Raises As Denver Public Schools Tries To Salvage Its ‘Unprecedented Budgetary Shortfall’
By Jenny Brundin June 19, 2020 Denver’s teachers’ union has successfully fought back attempts to freeze pay raises it won after a historic 3-day strike last February, even as Colorado’s largest school district faces an unprecedented budget shortfall. Denver Public Schools and the district’s teacher’s union spent 13-hours at the virtual bargaining table Thursday as district officials…
How well-funded a Wisconsin kid’s public school depends on which side of the tracks they live
Many say that’s unfair. Some are trying to change it. By: Racine County Eye June 17, 2020 Milwaukee Public School Teachers and supporters picket outside the Milwaukee Public Schools Administration Building in April 2018. Photo: Charles Edward Miller. Nearly half of funding for public schools in Wisconsin comes from local property taxes. That means the…
With Layoffs Mounting, Educators Protest Sweeping Public Education Cuts
By Anaridis Rodriguez June 15, 2020 BROOKLINE (CBS) – As layoff notices go out across the state, educators rallied to save their jobs with a caravan through the streets of Brookline Monday. The procession, which involved an estimated 500 vehicles, started at Larz Anderson Park and ended at Brookline High — where hundreds protested sweeping education…
Massachusetts educators protest layoffs and sweeping cuts to public education
By Will McCalliss and Evan Blake17 June 2020 On Monday, educators from across the state of Massachusetts held a rally in Brookline, a part of the Greater Boston area, to protest the devastating budget cuts and job losses that are mounting statewide. Educators in over 50 school districts across the state have now been given…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 