OCTAVIO JONES | Times Hernando County District Schools Superintendent Lori Romano listens to board member Susan Duval give her remarks on the firing of 47 teachers at Moton Elementary School during the board meeting. A crowd packs the Hernando County School District board meeting days after the April 24 announcement that 47 teachers at Moton…
Category: Teacher Shortage
Pueblo teachers strike continues into third day as a few schools start to reopen
Teachers and supporters strike outside East High School on May 7, 2018 in Pueblo. Teachers, from Pueblo School District 60, are on strike after the district turned down a recommended 2 percent cost of living salary increase. By DANIKA WORTHINGTON | The Denver Post May 9, 2018 at 11:06 am Teachers in Pueblo have entered the third…
Alabama schools struggle with teacher diversity
By Trisha Powell Crain Updated Sep 5, 2017; Posted Jul 13, 2017 This is the latest story in our series Tackling the Gap: A Teacher’s Conversation. The gap between black and white students in Alabama is both large and persistent when it comes to the percentage scoring proficient on standardized tests. AL.com and Spaceship Media are facilitating an online conversation with Alabama teachers, exploring…
We can expect more from teachers when we pay them like pros: Bloomberg and Weingarten
Michael Bloomberg and Randi Weingarten, Opinion contributors Published 3:15 a.m. ET April 27, 2018 Teachers participating in walkouts deserve better pay and greater authority. They shouldn’t have to take part time jobs to make ends meet. Funding for New York City public schools was inadequate. Teachers had gone years without a raise and were badly…
Everything you need to know about why Colorado teachers are walking out of classes and onto the Capitol
What do the teachers want? What have they been doing? And why is there a bill trying to ban teachers from striking? By DANIKA WORTHINGTON | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: April 24, 2018 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: April 24, 2018 at 8:16 am Teachers are normally at the front of the classroom, scribbling on the board. Or monitoring students…
Kentucky Education Commissioner Dr. Stephen Pruitt resigns
By WKYT News Staff | Posted: Tue 5:15 PM, Apr 17, 2018 | Updated: Tue 10:37 PM, Apr 17, 2018 FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) – Dr. Stephen Pruitt has resigned as Kentucky education commissioner. The board agreed to accept Pruitt’s resignation, even though he had the ability to complete his term as there were no grounds for termination. The board held a lengthy…
Paid summer breaks and other common myths about teachers
By Dakin Andone, Updated 7:24 PM ET, Sun April 15, 2018 As teachers in several states across the United States protest for higher pay and more funding for public education, lawmakers and onlookers are debating whether teachers deserve more money. But many of the arguments against teachers’ demands are based on misconceptions about the…
An Arts Education Crisis? How Potential Federal Cuts Could Decimate School Arts Programs
January 29, 2017 KEVIN MAHNKEN n 2013, the National Endowment for the Arts and its neighbor, the National Endowment for the Humanities, may have assumed they had suffered their final indignity at the hands of Donald Trump. The developer had secured a lease to build what would become the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.’s Old Post…
A Punishing Decade for School Funding
NOVEMBER 29, 2017 BY MICHAEL LEACHMAN KATHLEEN MASTERSON ERIC F IGUEROA Public investment in K-12 schools — crucial for communities to thrive and the U.S. economy to offer broad opportunity — has declined dramatically in a number of states over the last decade. Worse, some of the deepest-cutting states have also cut income tax rates, weakening their…
In Arizona, teachers can now be hired with absolutely no training in how to teach
By Valerie Strauss May 14, 2017 New legislation signed into law in Arizona by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey (R) will allow teachers to be hired with no formal teaching training, as long as they have five years of experience in fields “relevant” to the subject they are teaching. What’s “relevant” isn’t clear. The Arizona law…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 