The report comes in a year when educators in three states rallied for higher wages. BY MORIAH BALINGIT June 20, 2018 They work as private tutors and soccer coaches, as waiters, grocery clerks and ride-share drivers. Across the country, 18 percent of teachers earn income outside the classroom, according to a National Center for Education Statistics…
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How bad is teacher pay? Nearly 1 in 5 teachers works a second job, report says
By: Moriah Balingit They work as private tutors and soccer coaches, as waiters, grocery clerks and ride-share drivers. Across the country, 18 percent of teachers earn income outside the classroom, according to a National Center for Education Statistics report released Wednesday. The finding comes from a nationally representative survey of teachers conducted in the 2015-2016…
For First Time, New York City Teachers Will Get Paid Parental Leave
Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, at a news conference earlier this month. On Wednesday, Mr. Mulgrew said getting paid parental leave for union members has been “a long fight.”CreditSeth Wenig/Associated Press By Elizabeth A. Harris and J. David Goodman June 20, 2018 New York City public schoolteachers will get paid parental leave beginning this…
Education inequity is holding back American potential
BY JOHN BRIDGELAND AND CARMEL MARTIN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 06/07/18 Every day, teachers perform the heroic work of educating children. In the process, they make dozens of quick judgments about their students. Of course, teachers are no different from the rest of us — we all do this. Unfortunately, research shows these snap judgments are often influenced…
Fixing accreditation: The third rail of higher education reform
EMILY BOUCK, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR 06/18/18 A student entering college today is more likely to leave with debt than a degree, and 31 million Americans have some college credit, but no degree or credential at all. Yet the degree is still the North Star for economic opportunity: a bachelor’s degree-holder earns one million dollars moreover their lifetime than their…
Chicago promised that closing nearly 50 schools would help kids in 2013. A new report says it didn’t.
By Valerie Strauss May 24, 2018 In 2013, the Chicago school district closed 49 elementary schools and one high school program in the face of a $1 billion deficit, the largest mass school closure in the country’s modern history. Schools officials and Mayor Rahm Emanuel made this promise to nearly 12,000 mostly African American students from…
With A-F grades off the table, Tennessee gets creative about rating its schools under federal law
BY MARTA W. ALDRICH JUNE 11, 2018 Tennessee’s plan to start grading its schools this year has taken a big detour. Days of online testing problems this spring forced officials to toss out a new A-F grading system, under development for more than a year as part of Tennessee’s sweeping plan to usher in a new era of…
Why our schools are failing
Most teachers do not teach because of the money. Updated Jun 13; Posted Jun 12 By Robert Wilkerson When people say our schools are failing, they have overstated the problem. The truth is many of our schools are failing, but some are doing quite well. The ones that are failing are not failing because prayer was taken out…
Editorial: Education funding is still broken
Sunday, June 17, 2018 Last week, several hundred students, teachers and parents marched from Franklin High School to city hall to protest budget cuts that are decimating faculty and shortchanging Franklin’s children. The district is slated to lose 14 positions. That’s on top of the 14 positions the school district cut over the past two years. Franklin’s…
#RedForEd returns to the Arizona Capitol on Saturday to rally for education funding
Ricardo Cano, June 18, 2018 Arizona teachers will return to the Capitol on Saturday for a rally, a month after tens of thousands of educators walked out of class and flooded Arizona’s statehouse for six school days. This time, teachers are rallying to collect signatures for a proposed ballot measure that would bring in $690 million in additional…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 