By CHRISTOPHER WEBER January 9, 2019 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Teachers in Los Angeles, whose 640,000 students make it the nation’s second-largest school district, are ready to strike Thursday over a contract dispute that follows teacher walkouts in other states that emboldened organized labor after a critical defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court. United Teachers…
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SC teachers’ patience waning as lawmakers again pledge to fix public education
BY MAAYAN SCHECHTER AND TOM BARTON January 06, 2019 COLUMBIA, SC Two days before S.C. lawmakers return to Columbia with an unprecedented desire to overhaul the state’s public education system, there is no consensus on how to stop the ongoing teacher shortage and fix the state’s K-12 education woes. Influential S.C. House Speaker Jay Lucas,…
Harsh critic turned public education advocate to speak at CenturyLink Center
Jan 7, 2019 BOSSIER PARISH, LA) – What do blueberries have to do with public education? Everything, as respected businessman and attorney Jamie Vollmer learned after being taken to task by a teacher after he vocally condemned public schools. Once a harsh critic, Vollmer is now an award-winning champion of public education and author of…
Rural Republican proposes tax increase for public education
By: Ben Giles January 7, 2019 Republican Sen. Sylvia Allen wants voters to approve a sales tax hike to boost funding for K-12 schools and higher education. Voters already approved the 0.6-cent sales tax for education in 2000, a levy that generated more than $700 million in the previous fiscal year. Allen, a Snowflake Republican, wants…
Education year in review: Alabama 2018 edition
By Trisha Powell Crain January 1, 2019 From the hiring of a new superintendent to school safety dominating the national conversation to a charter school leading the way, 2018 was a busy year in education in Alabama. Here’s a look back at 2018. Data, data, and more data As is happening nationally, educators and policymakers…
Proposed bill would give teachers pay incentive to improve school grades
By: KRQE Media Dec 19, 2018 SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – A bill filed ahead of next year’s legislative session offers public school teachers a bonus to help raise a school’s failing grade by at least one letter each year. According to House Bill 42 introduced by Democrat Miguel Garcia, schools rated ‘D’ or ‘F’…
Brevard teachers union halts raise negotiations, calling district’s offers ‘laughable’
Following months of negotiations, the Brevard County school district and the teachers union are at a standstill over teacher raises after the union called impasse this week. District negotiators and union leaders have made little progress since starting bargaining talks nearly six months ago, and despite millions of dollars in budget savings are struggling to find money for salaries….
MORE THAN 2,000 PEOPLE FAIL NORTH CAROLINA MATH EXAM TO BECOME LICENSED TEACHERS
Neetu Chandak December 19, 2019 An education standards commission in North Carolina unanimously voted to phase out a portion of a teaching licensing test as about 2,400 teachers failed the math exam. The commission voted to replace for-profit Pearson publishing company’s math test with a math exam from Praxis, created by nonprofit test provider Educational Testing Service (ETS). The…
Trump school safety group backs off his call to arm trained teachers
Trump created the school safety commission and asked Betsy DeVos to chair it following the February shooting of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. | Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images By KIMBERLY HEFLING December 19, 2018 A Trump administration school safety panel hardly touched on the role of guns in deadly school shootings…
SC ‘children lose’ in the classroom, teachers say. Here’s what they would change
COLUMBIA, SC On a Tuesday in November, Jared arrived in Jeff Maxey’s elementary school class, accompanied by a state caseworker. The night before, the child’s mother was arrested. Hours later, he was balled up in a fetal position under his teacher’s desk, “scared and alone,” Maxey told S.C. House members Monday. “The social and emotional…
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