A federal court in California dismissed teachers’ claims that the California Teachers Association diverted their wages without their consent to fund union political activities and campaigns they do not wish to support. The California Education Code allows superintendents to deduct dues from members who voluntarily join unions.
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While watching their students on the playground at lunchtime Tuesday, several teachers from Park Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles felt drops after an airplane flew overhead. It took a few seconds for them and their students to register that the liquid was accompanied by an overwhelming odor of jet fuel.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court ruled that a group of substitute teachers and other school employees are eligible for unemployment benefits during the summer sessions that “resemble other academic terms of the school year in terms of enrollment, staffing, budget, instructional program or other objective criteria.”
Read moreA Native American claims a teacher at Cibola High School in Albuquerque called her a “bloody Indian” in front of her 11th-grade English class, “moments after she cut off the braids of another female Native American student against her will in front of the same class,” in Bernalillo County Court.
Read moreA former teacher claims in federal court that the South Country Central School District in New York fired her illegally for sending a topless selfie photo to a male teacher with whom she was in a relationship, but did not discipline him.
Read moreA former student’s Title IX claim against a Katy, Texas, school district relating to the sexual relationship she had with a male teacher may continue, a federal court in the state ruled, finding there are questions pertaining to the district’s knowledge of the teacher’s prior inappropriate relationships with students.
Read moreA school district in California’s capital city is careening toward bankruptcy after it ignored warnings from county officials and approved ill-advised generous teacher raises, the state auditor announced Tuesday.
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As the country looks for ways to deal with mass shootings at schools, some have responded by saying more people should carry guns, including teachers.
Read moreLittle Rock teachers will go on strike for one day this week over an Arkansas panel’s decision to strip their collective bargaining power and complaints about state control of the 23,000-student district, union officials said Monday.
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At the entrance to Sidney High School in small-town Ohio, there is a poster that states: “Inside this building, our children are protected by an armed and trained response team.”
Read moreThe Chicago Teachers Union on Thursday afternoon finally called off a strike that cancelled 11 days of classes after a tense, last-minute compromise with Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Read moreThe Chicago Teachers’ Union voted to finally accept a contract from the city Wednesday night after a two-week battle with rookie Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
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Striking Chicago teachers who are seeking smaller class sizes and higher pay also are demanding that the nation’s third-largest city do more to lower housing costs and put more resources into helping homeless students.
Read moreA day after her Democratic rival Joe Biden addressed the New York City teachers’ union, presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren released a new plan to improve U.S. public education.
Read moreFormer Vice President and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden – and his educator wife – made their pitch Sunday to New York City teachers at the United Federation of Teachers’ annual Teacher Union Day.
Read moreNew York’s largest teachers union scored a victory in the war over charter schools Thursday with an appeals court ruling that state policymakers overstepped by diluting certification requirements for charter school educators.
Read moreChicago public school teachers will strike starting Thursday morning, as delegates from the Chicago Teachers’ Union voted Wednesday to reject the latest contract proposal from the city after three weeks of negotiations.
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A threatened strike by Chicago teachers would test a strategy employed by a growing number of urban teachers unions who think transforming contentious contract talks into discussions about class size and student services wins public support and can make a difference at the bargaining table.
Read moreA special ed teacher with a master’s degree sued the American Federation of Teachers in federal court, claiming it failed to represent her after she was repeatedly injured by violent students in a “secret room” at Corpus Christi Independent School District.
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