Category: Pension & Salary
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…
No Child Left Behind: An Overview
By Alyson Klein (@politicsk12) The No Child Left Behind law—the 2002 update of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—effectively scaled up the federal role in holding schools accountable for student outcomes. In December 2015, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act to replace NCLB. ESSA moved in the opposite direction—it seeks to pare back the federal role…
Arizona teachers wear red, talk strike amid frustration over low wages
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…
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…
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…
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