Lindsay Moore, April 11, 2019 bStudents listen as speakers talk about the lack of teacher salary raises in the state of Indiana, Wednesday, April 10, 2019, at West Lafayette Jr./Sr. High School in West Lafayette. Greater Lafayette teachers and community members gathered outside schools before walking in to demand teacher salary raises. (Nikos Frazier |…
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Thousands of Sacramento teachers ready to walk off the job
One-day strike set for Thursday Apr 10, 2019 Mike Luery SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) —Up to 2,300 teachers are poised to walk out of Sacramento City Unified School District schools Thursday for a scheduled strike. Tens of thousands of students and parents are caught in the middle of a bitter dispute. Picket signs were stacked and…
Kelly signs Kansas public school funding bill into law
TOPEKA, Kan. — Gov. Laura Kelly has signed legislation to increase public school funding a day after Kansas lawmakers approved the plan. Kelly, a Democrat, signed the bill at a ceremony Saturday, saying she was following through on a campaign promise to be the state’s “education governor” and to try to end a protracted education funding lawsuit….
Boston Public Schools need health care providers, stat
By ANNISSA ESSAIBI GEORGE | April 3, 2019 | Today, 44 Boston Public Schools do not have a full-time nurse. Instead, these schools share part-time nurses that travel back and forth between buildings every day. In these schools, our students will not have complete access to the medical attention they require on a day-to-day basis. In order…
California’s public schools enrollment down, Hispanic and charter school students on the rise
Detailed CDE ‘snapshot’ for 2018-19 year breaks down enrollment by ethnicity, grade, along with English language acquisition, and can be sorted by county, district, or school By RICHARD BAMMER | April 1, 2019 at 4:38 am The most recent state data for California’s K–12 public schools indicates that overall enrollment is down slightly, while the number of…
Many Texas teachers have second jobs or live paycheck to paycheck. They’re anxiously watching the teacher pay debate.
“I never anticipated that I would take a summer job at Wendy’s just so that I could replace a broken dishwasher,” said one high school English teacher who makes $45,000 per year. BY MARÍA MÉNDEZ APRIL 3, 2019 Houston teacher Brady Mayo moved back in with his parents while he was paying for his kids to…
Kentucky teachers proud of what they accomplished this session, but what’s next?
FRANKFORT — At a glance, their differences were obvious. The women from Louisville were young. They were black. Seated nearby, the women from Eastern Kentucky were older and white. A quick listen and you could hear the differences, too. Different accents. Different life experiences. But if you stayed with them for a while you would…
With teachers in short supply, should Florida make it easier for them to get the job?
Two bills would ease the path for teachers who have trouble passing Florida’s general knowledge test. But some say the legislation goes too far. A proposed change in Florida law would give teachers more time to pass the general knowledge test and, in some case, allow them to get their teaching certificate through a mentoring…
Every school on “failing” list has more than half of students on free/reduced lunch
By Jonathan Hardison | March 20, 2019 BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) – There are 76 schools on this year’s list of so-called “failing schools” and they’re spread all over the state, in both rural and urban areas, some are very diverse, others hardly at all. There is one thing all of these different schools share: most of their…
Boston Public Schools teachers and supporters rally for new contract
By TAYLOR PETTAWAY March 20, 2019 Hundreds of parents, teachers, students and concerned citizens circled around the Boston Public School’s district office to rally for teacher contract negotiations they say will help improve schools. “We need to speak the truth about our broken school system,” said Rosalinda Mindence, a student support staff member at Boston Day…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 