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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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,…
Governor calls for large teacher pay raises, more education jobs
BY WILL DORAN MARCH 05, 2019 Thousands of educators march in Raleigh and demand respect 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. Public school teachers should get a 9.1 percent raise…
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…
Teachers in Oakland approve contract ending strike
Associated Press March 3, 2019 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 OAKLAND, Calif. – Oakland teachers will be back in their classrooms Monday after union…
Oakland school board cancels meeting, citing fear of safety as teachers picket outside
By ANGELA RUGGIERO February 27, 2019 OAKLAND — With hundreds of picketing teachers and supporters gathered outside and fearing for its safety, the Oakland school board cancelled its meeting Wednesday, putting off a decision on whether to cut millions of dollars from the district’s budget. “Everything is cancelled,” school board member Jumoke Hinton Hodge told this…
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…
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