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…
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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…
Teachers group calls for statewide ‘sickout’ as JCPS, other districts close
Mandy McLaren, Feb. 28, 2019 Angered by pension reform and Gov. Matt Bevin’s remarks during their protests, dozens of teachers are running for the Kentucky House and Senate.. Wochit Kentucky’s two largest school districts will be closed Thursday after a grassroots network of teachers called for a sickout to protest a bill that would restructure the board that…
In a year of strikes, Texas lawmakers move forward $5K annual pay raise for teachers
Kristin Lam, Feb. 26, 2019 https://uw-media.usatoday.com/embed/video/39094587?sitelabel=reimagine&placement=snow-smallarticleattophtml5&keywords=texas-senate%2Ctexas%2Ceducation%2Ck-12-education%2Ctorment%2Canguish%2Coverall-negative%2Ccontract-issue-wages&simpleTarget=&simpleExclusion=&pagetype=story&cst=news%2Feducation&ssts=news%2Feducation&series= About 3,000 teachers in Oakland, California, are striking over pay, class sizes and other issues, following educator walkouts in West Virginia, Los Angeles and Denver. The Oakland strike affects 36,000 students at 86 schools. (Feb. 21) AP In the midst of a year of teachers’ strikes across the nation, Texas teachers…
Republican-backed $1,000 teacher pay hike clears hurdle. Democrats ask: ‘Is this a joke?’
BY KAYLEIGH SKINNER FEBRUARY 14, 2019 The Mississippi State Senate passed a bill that would bump up the salaries of public school teachers, but some say it’s just not enough. Senate Bill 2770 passed out of the Senate Wednesday. The bill will increase teacher pay across the board by $1,000 over two years. If the bill is eventually…
Mississippi Teacher pay raise bill sparking questions with educators
By Courtney Ann Jackson | February 15, 2019 JACKSON, MS – There’s only one bill left in play this session that could lead to a pay raise for Mississippi teachers, but teachers say when you do the math–it won’t even be noticeable in their bank account. These Valentine’s Day messages may look festive. But they were delivered with…
Red for Ed Continues: Where Teachers’ Strikes Are Set to Spread Next
By Sarah Jones Denver Classroom Teachers Association teachers and supporters rally at the Colorado State Capitol demanding better wages and urging the state not to get involved in a possible strike on January 30, 2019. Photo: Andy Cross/Denver Post via Getty Images The Red for Ed movement likely immortalized 2018 as a banner year for labor organizing…
California Today: The L.A. Teachers’ Union Leader on What Would End the Strike
By Jill Cowan Jan. 17, 2019 Yesterday, we talked to Austin Beutner, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, about the city’s teachers’ strike that has all but ground the operations of the nation’s second-largest school system to a halt. Today, we hear from the other side. My colleague Jennifer Medina talked to Alex Caputo-Pearl, the president…
Texas House proposes a massive increase for public school funding
Proposed budget would increase state funds for education by about 17 percent By Edgar Walters January 15, 2019 © 2018 The Texas Tribune House Speaker Dennis Bonnen presiding over his first votes as speaker of the house. Jan. 9, 2019. Miguel Gutierrez Jr. / The Texas Tribune. Miguel Gutierrez Jr. / The Texas Tribune. …
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