According to a new study released Wednesday from the Public Policy Institute of California, some see a solution through charter schools while others cannot support the issue because they see the model comes at the expense of low teacher salaries and a lack of funding for traditional public schools.
Read moreA jury should decide whether administrators at Sandy Hook Elementary School, who were gunned down after leaving a conference room, failed to follow their own protocols and were negligent, attorneys representing two parents of deceased first-graders told a Connecticut appeals court Wednesday.
Read moreIn the days after a teenager shot and killed three fellow students at Ohio’s Chardon High School in 2012, then-Principal Andy Fetchik remembers getting a call from someone who knew just what he was experiencing. It was Frank DeAngelis, the principal of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, during the deadly 1999 shooting.
Read moreThe Third Circuit heard oral arguments Tuesday in the case of a Pennsylvania teacher who says he was cleared in a misconduct investigation but has been threatened with prosecution if he publicly declares his innocence.
Read moreAbout half of all new teachers who thought they knew what they were getting into at the start of their careers meet a stark reality that leads them to consider leaving the profession in the first decade: the workload and “teaching to the test.”
Read moreThe Sacramento City Teachers Association claims in court that the Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Trustees violated open-meeting laws by discussing its budget in closed session, leading to the firing of 150 teachers.
Read moreThrusting herself into a labor fight amid a long stream of recent strikes, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris dangled expansive raises for the nation’s teachers Tuesday to be paid for by taxing the rich.
Read moreChilly temperatures and rain didn’t stop teachers from striking in the Netherlands on Friday.
Read moreThe Missouri Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday over whether immunity should be granted to a high school teacher accused of carelessly restraining a combative student, breaking his arm in the process.
Read moreFive Ohioans opposed to a school’s policy of arming teachers claim the school board violated their rights to free speech by silencing them or limiting their ability to speak out against the policy at public meetings.
Read moreVotes counted over the weekend showed 97 percent of Denver Classroom Teachers Association members support the contract reached with the school district in which the average teacher will see an 11.7 percent raise.
Read moreOakland teachers were exuberant as they protested working conditions flanked by supporters and an impromptu marching band at a downtown rally Thursday afternoon.
Read moreWest Virginia teachers and other school personnel went back to work Thursday after their two-day strike killed a bill aimed at bringing charter schools and private-school vouchers to fruition in the Mountain State.
Read moreTeachers in Oakland, California, planned to raise picket signs Thursday in the country’s latest strike by educators over classroom conditions and pay.
Read moreMoroccan police are firing water cannons at protesting teachers and beating people with truncheons amid demonstrations around the capital.
Read moreTeachers from all 55 West Virginia counties went on strike Tuesday in an effort to ensure that a highly complex education bill that included proposals for charter schools and educational savings accounts would be tabled indefinitely.
Read moreNearly a year to the day after West Virginia teachers went on strike that launched a national “Red4Ed” movement, they’re doing it again. Unions called a statewide walkout Tuesday over education legislation they view as lacking their input and as retaliation for last year’s strike.
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