#RedForEd teachers celebrate after Arizona’s legislature passed a state budget early Thursday that included nearly $273 million aimed at giving teachers pay raises. David Wallace, The Republic | azcentral.com Ricardo Cano, The Republic | 6:00 a.m. MT June 3, 2018 The pay stubs for teachers in these districts, such as the Washington Elementary and Tempe Union school districts, will look…
Category: Funding For Education
The Numbers That Explain Why Teachers Are in Revolt
After a quarter century of steady growth on education spending, a shock to the system. By Robert Gebeloff June 4, 2018 American teachers are angry. They have taken to the streets in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arizona, Colorado — and more recently in North Carolina. Dissent is building in Louisiana and Nevada, too. But while the…
North Carolina’s Teacher Revolt Was Decades in the Making
Paul Blest and Nick Martin May 18, 2018 A derecho of red shirts swept through Raleigh, N.C. on Wednesday as thousands of teachers and their allies flooded the capitol, in defiance of the pouring rain, to demand better conditions in their state’s public schools. In a march from the headquarters of the North Carolina Association of Educators…
Nationwide Teacher Strikes Highlight The Dire State Of US Public Education
By Kim Bussing May 16, 2018 WV Teacher Strike at Bunker Hill Elementary School in Berkeley County, West Virginia (Photo Credit: Eric Bourgeois CC BY-SA 4.0 from Wikimedia Commons On Wednesday, May 16, thousands of North Carolina educators took to the streets to protest against low teacher salaries and deteriorating school conditions. Their one-day strike is part of…
North Carolina schools prepare to close as teachers flock to state Capitol
By Moriah Balingit May 15 at 7:58 PM North Carolina teachers plan to descend Wednesday on the statehouse in Raleigh to rally for more public school funding, a protest expected to keep hundreds of thousands of students out of the classroom. The state becomes the latest to see teachers leave schools en masse to confront state…
NC march leaders want teacher pay and education spending to reach national average
By T. Keung Hui The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) (TNS) May 15, 2018 Updated 2 hrs ago RALEIGH, N.C. — The group organizing Wednesday’s mass teacher rally in Raleigh says it wants state lawmakers to sharply raise education spending — including pay raises for all school employees — and to reverse many of the education changes…
Teachers shelling out nearly $500 a year on school supplies, report finds
By Moriah Balingit May 15 at 12:25 PM Pencils, pens, crayons, construction paper, T-shirts, snacks and, sometimes, a pair of shoes: The costs add up for public school teachers who reach into their own pockets for classroom supplies, ensuring their students have the necessities of learning. Nearly all teachers are footing the bill for classroom…
The one way North Carolina’s teacher rally Wednesday could spark change
Kentucky teachers rally last month. Rallies in Kentucky, Colorado, Arizona and elsewhere have encouraged North Carolina teachers, who will rally in Raleigh on Wednesday. Bryan Woolston AP photo BY THE OBSERVER EDITORIAL BOARD May 15, 2018 10:11 AM Will the 15,000 N.C. teachers gathering in Raleigh Wednesday for the largest teachers rally in state history succeed?…
Unionized Or Not, Teachers Struggle To Make Ends Meet, NPR/Ipsos Poll Finds
May 2, 2018 By: ANYA KAMENETZ & LARE LOMBARDO More than 9 in 10 teachers say they joined the profession for idealistic reasons — “I wanted to do good” — but most are struggling to some extent economically. Those findings come from a nationally representative survey by NPR and Ipsos of more than 500 teachers across the country….
Before They Walk Into A Classroom, These New Teachers Will March On The N.C. Capitol
Cristina Chase Lane (left) and WinnieHope Mamboleo recently graduated from North Carolina State University’s College of Education. May 14, 2018 ARI SHAPIRO ANYA KAMENETZ Last week, teachers-to-be WinnieHope Mamboleo and Cristina Chase Lane marched across the graduation stage at North Carolina State University. This week, they’ll be marching with future colleagues at the state capitol…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 