By Brandi Addison Wednesday, March 6, 2019 Photo: Tim Fischer IMAGE 1 OF 3 Steve Thomas, president of Midland College, Gregory Williams, president of Odessa College and Sandra Woodley, president of University of Texas of the Permian Basin, speak about the state of higher education … more Presidents of higher education institutes across the Permian Basin have spoken…
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Groups rally at Capitol for higher education funding
Associated Press Mar 6, 2019 ALBANY — The Cuomo administration must boost funding for the state public university system so that most individual campuses don’t have to divert operational funds to close a gap in tuition assistance, student and faculty union groups said Wednesday. Advocacy organizations from across the state held a rally at the…
Report says average NC teacher salary is nearly $54,000. But NCAE says that figure is ‘skewed.’
BY T. KEUNG HUI MARCH 06, 2019 On Wednesday May 16, 2018, the opening day of the legislative session, educators and their supporters from across the state traveled to Raleigh to demand more funding for public education. The average salary for a North Carolina public school teacher has risen 5 percent to nearly $54,000 this…
The diversity gap for public school teachers is actually growing across generations
he public teacher workforce has been slowly growing more racially diverse over the last three decades. A notable study from Richard Ingersoll and Lisa Merrill finds the number of teachers of color more than doubled between 1987 and 2012, resulting in the share of nonwhite teachers in America’s public schools expanding from 12 to 17 percent over…
Oakland teachers strike over, but tough issues remain unresolved
Otis R. Taylor Jr. March 7, 2019 School teachers picket in front La Escuelita Elementary and Metwest High schools in Oakland, Calif. on Friday, March 1, 2019. Photo: Paul Chinn / The Chronicle Teachers in Oakland are back in the classrooms, but tension in the district is still thick. The seven-day strike that ended Sunday…
Warren issues challenge to Rochester, state over failing schools: ‘Today that stops’
Justin Murphy, | March 5, 2019 https://uw-media.democratandchronicle.com/embed/video/3055472002?sitelabel=reimagine&placement=snow-smallarticleattophtml5&keywords=rochester-city-school-district%2Clove%2Caction%2Coverall-positive%2Clovely-warren&simpleTarget=&simpleExclusion=&pagetype=story&cst=news%2Feducation&ssts=news%2Feducation&series= Lovely Warren speaks March 4, 2019 at a ROC the Future press conference. Tina MacIntyre-Yee, @tyee23 CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE The community nonprofit coalition ROC the Future and Mayor Lovely Warren Monday declared an end of the status quo for education in the city of Rochester. The first steps are circulating a petition…
Idaho public school budgets glide through the House
Plans collectively provide $2.26 billion in total funding By WILLIAM L. SPENCE March 6, 2019 Priscilla Giddings BOISE — Seven fiscal 2020 public school budgets sailed through the House floor with minimal opposition and almost no debate Tuesday. The budgets collectively provide $2.26 billion in total funding. That includes $1.89 billion in general fund support,…
Teachers rally in Central Florida and across the state for better school funding
By: Leslie Postal March 4, 2019 Teachers rallied in Orlando — and in communities across the state — on Monday, looking to support their union’s push for better funding for Florida’s public schools. The “fund our future” events, sponsored by the Florida Education Association, aimed to persuade state lawmakers to put more money into public…
Keys teachers protest over public school funds diverted to charter and private schools
BY DAVID GOODHUE MARCH 04, 2019 Teachers and their supporters stand outside of Plantation Key School in the Florida Keys Monday, March 4, 2018, to protest plans to increase public funding of private and charter schools. PHOTO BY KIMBERLY KASPER-LOWELL Monroe County teachers stood outside their schools Monday morning to protest plans by the governor and…
The Trump Administration’s Bold New School-Choice Plan
By JOHN SCHILLING March 4, 2019 Students exit a bus at Venice High School in Los Angeles, Calif., December 2015. (Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters) The Education Freedom Scholarship program proposed by Betsy DeVos and the administration’s congressional allies would be a huge step in the right direction.American parents are demanding more and better K–12 options, and they…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 