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…
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Trump Seeks to Cut Education Budget by 5 Percent, Expand School Choice Push
By Andrew Ujifusa on February 12, 2018 1:05 PM President Donald Trump is seeking a roughly 5 percent cut to the U.S. Department of Education’s budget for fiscal 2019 in a proposal that also mirrors his spending plan from last year by seeking to eliminate a major teacher-focused grant and to expand school choice. Trump’s proposed budget, released…
DeVos seeks cuts from Education Department to support school choice
By Valerie Strauss, Danielle Douglas-Gabriel and Moriah Balingit February 13 More than $1 billion would be spent on private school vouchers and other school choice plans under the budget proposal released Monday by President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. The proposal also calls for slashing the Education Department’s budget and devoting more resources to career training, at the expense…
Matt Bevin warns Kentucky teachers against a walkout: ‘That would be a mistake’
Mandy McLaren, Louisville Courier JournalPublished 12:29 p.m. ET April 9, 2018 As Kentucky teachers contemplate their next moves one week after a massive rally in the state Capitol, Gov. Matt Bevin said a teacher walkout would be “irresponsible” and a “mistake.”… As Kentucky teachers contemplate their next moves one week after a massive rally in…
Arizona teachers, schools prepare for a walkout over salaries, education money {#iBelieve}
Arizona teachers prep for walkout Author: Ricardo Cano and Kaila White and Lily Altavena, The Republic | azcentral.com Published: 9:30 AM EDT April 10, 2018 PHOENIX — Across Arizona, parents, teachers, schools boards and superintendents are bracing for the a likely walkout as educators pressure state leaders to act on their demands for 20% pay raises and more education…
Alabama’s national test scores still low, but not last
By Trisha Powell Crain tcrain@al.com Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, released Tuesday, show Alabama’s scores in fourth- and eighth-grade reading and math remain unchanged from 2015, the last time the tests were given. Scores at the national level were flat, too, except in eighth-grade reading, where scores increased. Scores in Alabama were…
Keith Ellison: Why teachers are fighting back
By Keith Ellison Updated 5:02 PM ET, Mon April 9, 2018 (CNN)In 1968, more than 1,000 garbage collectors walked off the job in Memphis, Tennessee, to protest poverty wages, unpaid overtime, and poor — sometimes lethal — working conditions. Last month, West Virginia public school teachers in all 55 counties did the same — not out of symbolism, but…
Why Are Our Most Important Teachers Paid the Least? {#iBelieve}
Many preschool teachers live on the edge of financial ruin. Would improving their training — and their pay — improve outcomes for their students? By JENEEN INTERLANDIJAN. 9, 2018 One snowy February morning at the Arbors Kids preschool branch in downtown Springfield, Mass., 38-year-old Kejo Kelly crouched low over a large, faded carpet and locked…
N.C. educator takes on critic who said teachers have it easy and should stop complaining {#iBelieve}
Angie Scioli, a North Carolina teacher, is the subject of a 2017 documentary. (Image from “Teacher of the Year” documentary) By Valerie Strauss April 9 at 1:33 PM Angie Scioli is an award-winning veteran high school social studies teacher and education activist at Leesville Road High School in Raleigh, N.C. She was the subject of the well-received…
Teacher of the year winner looking for better pay elsewhere
By: Matt Rodewald POSTED: APR 09 2018 02:28PM MST FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (KSAZ) – Arizona, according to many surveys, ranks near the bottom when it comes to teacher pay, an issue that has been highlighted in recent weeks, as the topic of education is at the forefront of national debates. Despite Arizona Governor Ducey saying he will work on the…
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