Little 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.
Read moreA student sued San Diego Unified School District and a teacher in superior court, claiming the teacher tried to persuade to prostitute herself to older men, and when she told the principal of it, he responded, “What? Another one?” but did not call the police, and told her that she needed to “move on.”
Read moreA black teacher sued Folsom Cordova Unified School District for discrimination, harassment and retaliation in El Dorado (Calif.) County Court, claiming that after she declined to participate in a faculty gift exchange, someone put a “large watermelon slice ornament” in her school mailbox.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims that the New York City Department of Education retaliated against a teacher by firing him the very day the department partially approved his request for accommodation.
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The U.S. and British embassies in Moscow said Wednesday that Russia has refused visas to teachers at a school that educates diplomats’ children.
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With the promise of having their debt wiped clean after 10 years of on-time monthly payments, some 73,554 Americans took out costly loans to get their teaching degrees.
Despite meeting the government’s requirements, however, 71% of these educators were denied loan forgiveness since 2017. In a federal complaint Thursday, the second largest teacher’s union in the country says ineptitude at the the Education Department is to blame.
Read moreAt a Democratic presidential forum in Houston on Friday, 10 candidates promised teachers’ union members more federal funding to transform the U.S. public education system with universal pre-kindergarten, teacher pay raises and more on-campus counselors to prevent school shootings.
Read moreTeachers by the hundreds filled the halls of the West Virginia state capitol on Saturday to express their outrage against the Senate leader and his bill, the Student Success Act.
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