Kimberly Veklerov Feb. 4, 2019 Oakland teachers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, ratcheting up their dispute with administrators of the financially troubled district over wages and class sizes, the union said Monday. The vote allows union leaders to call a strike after Feb. 15, when a neutral fact-finder is expected to release a report…
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Houston legislator wants metal detectors in every public school
By Tom Abrahams February 5, 2019 Politicians in Austin have made it clear that education is the centerpiece of this year’s legislative session. However, it’s not all about funding classrooms and paying teachers more. It’s also about keeping them safer than they’ve been. Shawn Thierry is a state representative from Houston. She’s also a parent with…
Military program aims to help Alabama ease its teacher shortage
February 3, 2019 By: Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The military is aiming to ease Alabama’s shortage of teachers. Military officials are leading two efforts designed to increase the number of teachers in the state’s public schools, The Montgomery Advertiser reported. “In order to replace teachers that are retiring and those that are choosing not to go…
Montana’s ‘last resort’ for finding teachers is becoming increasingly common in rural schools
By MATT HOFFMAN February 4, 2019 Barely any Montana schools used emergency authorizations to certify teachers a few years ago. Now, that number has jumped to 94, more than double what it was last year. And almost all of them are in small, rural schools. Whether the jump illustrates a worsening teacher shortage in those…
BY SAMIR SONTI February 4, 2019 The Los Angeles teachers’ strike is a model for a popular, militant working-class movement advancing a broad vision of education justice. That model can be replicated everywhere. Educators, parents, students, and supporters of the Los Angeles teachers’ strike rally on January 22, 2019 in downtown Los Angeles. Scott Heins /…
LA teachers reach tentative deal to end strike
BY BRETT SAMUELS – January 22, 2019 Los Angeles teachers struck a tentative deal on Tuesday to end a strike that had stretched into a second week in the nation’s second-largest school district. The Los Angeles Unified School District said in a tweet that it had reached a “tentative agreement” with the teachers’ union, but did…
The LA teachers’ strike has cost $97M. Now both sides are negotiating again
By Holly Yan, January 17, 2019 Tens of thousands of educators strike in California After an apparent dayslong game of “chicken,” the Los Angeles teachers union and the school district went back to the negotiating table Thursday. Talks resumed for the first time since more than 30,000 educators walked off the job this week to demand smaller…
2 days remain for Denver Public Schools, teachers union to reach deal
BY KRISTIN HAUBRICH January 16, 2019 DPS, teachers union remain far apart as strike looms DENVER — The clock is winding down. Only two days remain for the Denver Public School District and its teachers union to reach a compromise and avoid having more than 5,000 educators walk out on the job. After Tuesday’s negotiations, the school districts…
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…
Teachers at four charter schools in Chicago set Feb. 5 strike date if no contract reached
By: Juan Perez Jr. January 17, 2019 Teachers affiliated with the Chicago International Charter School network say they will go on strike Feb. 5 unless there is a breakthrough in contract negotiations, a move that would affect about 2,200 students at four of the organization’s campuses. That leaves a little more than two weeks for…
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