By Perry Bacon Jr. November 8, 2019 Teachers are changing American politics. We can’t quantify exactly how much of a role teachers and their opposition to Matt Bevin played in Andy Beshear’s victory this week. The teachers didn’t directly get Beshear elected on their own. There are about 42,000 public school teachers in Kentucky, so even if every one…
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Michigan districts with biggest losses to school choice in 2018-19
By Julie Mack Second grade teachers greet their new students during the first day of school on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019 at Doyle-Ryder Elementary School in Flint, as Flint Community Schools transition into a balanced calendar for the first time. (Jake May | MLive.com) The list of Michigan school districts hit hardest by school choice includes…
Hackles rise as Chicago teachers strike drags into day 10
By KATHLEEN FOODY 10-29-19 CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s mayor on Tuesday accused leaders of the city’s powerful teachers union of using its “political agenda” to hold up a contract agreement to end a strike that will keep students from classrooms for at least 10 days. Chicago Public Schools canceled classes for Wednesday after the Chicago…
Many parents are confused about how public education now works in New Orleans, report says
BY DELLA HASSELLE OCT 27, 2019 – 5:00 PM Phylisha Dannel is helped applying online for schools for her kids by Norma Martinez and Latonya Mornay, of EnrollNOLA, during the Urban League of Louisiana’s Schools Expo 2017 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on Saturday, February 4, 2017. People browse the booths during the…
Elizabeth Warren’s public schools plan calls for increased teacher pay, free lunch for all students
Kim Norvell, Oct. 21, 2019 U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren plans to invest $800 billion in public schools to ensure all students from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade can have equal access to quality education, she announced Monday. Warren, a former special education teacher, proposes reducing states’ reliance on property taxes to fund education, fighting against segregation,…
“In God We Trust” to be displayed in all Louisiana public schools by law
NEW ORLEANS (AP/WWL) — “In God We Trust” will be displayed in every public school in Louisiana starting this school year, as a bill passed unanimously and signed into law by Governor John Bel Edwards last year comes to fruition in the 2019-2020 school year. Louisiana Senate Bill 244 passed through the state House of Representatives…
New teacher survey shows many educators report feeling satisfied in their job — but undervalued by their community
Mark Keierleber | June 26, 2019 Teachers in the Univted State work long hours and feel undervalued by the public-but like their jobs anyway! Those findings, from an international education survey released this month, offer fodder for all sides of a debate about teacher pay and working conditions that is mobilizing teachers to protest across the country….
Teachers quit in Florida, citing ‘toxic’ conditions and a ‘testing nightmare’
(iStock) (Michael Quirk/iStock) By Valerie Strauss June 5, 2019 Florida has a serious teacher shortage. During this school year, there were more than 2,200 vacancies at one point or another. Why? In a recent post, Fed Ingram, Miami-Dade County teacher of the year in 2006 and now president of the Florida Education Association cited several reasons,…
Illinois teachers get new minimum base salary
By Michael Urbanec 8:26 pm The Times files A new minimum salary for Illinois teachers passed through the House and Senate around the same time lawmakers worked on recreational marijuana legalization and a gambling expansion. The bill is aimed at addressing the state’s teacher shortage. The new legislation sets the salary floor at $40,000 for public…
Bipartisan bill to build Minnesota’s ranks of teachers of color sputtered
By Faiza Mahamud JUNE 9, 2019 GLEN STUBBE – STAR TRIBUNE Rep. Jim Davnie, co-author of the bill, said less than half of the $3 million from the $543 million in education spending went to the effort to boost the number of teachers of color. Minnesota is increasing spending to hire and retain teachers of color…
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