Union leaders say a state Senate plan to create charter schools is retaliation for last year’s groundbreaking walkout. By Dave Jamieson February 6, 2019 DAVE JAMIESON/HUFFPOST West Virginia teachers went on strike almost exactly a year ago, with a contingent of them converging on the state capitol in Charleston. West Virginia teachers are deciding…
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30 best public high schools in Alabama for 2019
By Leada Gore | February 05, 2019 Where are Alabama’s best high schools? Niche is out with its 2019 list of Best Public High Schools in Alabama. The ranking is determined by a number of factors, including state test scores, college readiness, graduation rates, SAT/ACT scores, teacher quality and high school ratings. You can see more on…
Montana’s ‘last resort’ for finding teachers is becoming increasingly common in rural schools
By MATT HOFFMAN February 4, 2019 Barely any Montana schools used emergency authorizations to certify teachers a few years ago. Now, that number has jumped to 94, more than double what it was last year. And almost all of them are in small, rural schools. Whether the jump illustrates a worsening teacher shortage in those…
BY SAMIR SONTI February 4, 2019 The Los Angeles teachers’ strike is a model for a popular, militant working-class movement advancing a broad vision of education justice. That model can be replicated everywhere. Educators, parents, students, and supporters of the Los Angeles teachers’ strike rally on January 22, 2019 in downtown Los Angeles. Scott Heins /…
Deborah Gist Used to Fight Teachers Unions. Now She’s Marching With Them.
ULSA, Oklahoma — On a fall morning in 2018, veteran technology teacher Abraham Kamara was working with his robotics team at Memorial Junior High School when Tulsa school superintendent Deborah Gist entered the classroom with a TV news crew. Gist was there to surprise Kamara with the school year’s first Golden Apple Award, recognizing him…
EDUCATION Seattle Public Schools Face High-Stakes Election
On Feb. 12, voters will decide on two levies that fund staff, special education By Melissa Hellmann January 29, 2019 “We need nurses in schools, we need counselors in schools. We need all of those staff that make up an education system that can address the entire needs of the students,” Seattle Public Schools (SPS)…
LA teachers reach tentative deal to end strike
BY BRETT SAMUELS – January 22, 2019 Los Angeles teachers struck a tentative deal on Tuesday to end a strike that had stretched into a second week in the nation’s second-largest school district. The Los Angeles Unified School District said in a tweet that it had reached a “tentative agreement” with the teachers’ union, but did…
Los Angeles teachers strike to go into second week even if agreement reached, union says
The union and LA Unified School District are at odds over issues including salary, class size and support staff. Striking public school teachers and their supporters march during the 34th annual Kingdom Day Parade on Martin Luther King Jr Day in Los Angeles on January 21, 2019.Robyn Beck / AFP – Getty Images Jan. 21,…
More strikes ahead? Teachers say they love their jobs but can’t pay their bills, poll shows
Susan Page and Marina Pitofsky, Jan. 22, 2019 https://uw-media.usatoday.com/embed/video/1667902002?sitelabel=reimagine&placement=snow-smallarticleattophtml5&keywords=teaching%2Clos-angeles-unified-school-district%2Ceducational-testing%2Cstress%2Coverall-negative%2Canxiety%2Cschool%2Ceducation%2Csurvey%2Cstrikes%2Copinion-polls%2Cfamily-forward%2Cin-the-know&simpleTarget=disasters&simpleExclusion=disasters&pagetype=story&cst=news%2Fnational&ssts=news%2Fnation&series= Their passion for teaching and children may be the only thing keeping them invested in the profession. Spent a day with teachers across America. Jarrad Henderson, USA Today Teachers love their jobs, but they also say that they have the right, and the reasons, to walk out on them. An exclusive USA TODAY/Ipsos…
The LA teachers’ strike has cost $97M. Now both sides are negotiating again
By Holly Yan, January 17, 2019 Tens of thousands of educators strike in California After an apparent dayslong game of “chicken,” the Los Angeles teachers union and the school district went back to the negotiating table Thursday. Talks resumed for the first time since more than 30,000 educators walked off the job this week to demand smaller…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 