Chicago Teachers Go On Strike, Capping Years Of Social Justice Activism
From today’s NPR News Online: For the second time in seven years, Chicago Public Schools teachers will be on strike starting Thursday, walking out of class, they say, in the…
From today’s NPR News Online: For the second time in seven years, Chicago Public Schools teachers will be on strike starting Thursday, walking out of class, they say, in the…
From today’s CBS Evening News: Teachers in Sacramento went on strike Thursday for the first time in 30 years. They’re accusing the school district of backtracking on promises of better…
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles teachers are poised to end their first strike in 30 years after union leaders reached a tentative deal Tuesday with the L.A. Unified School District. The Board…
From today’s Los Angeles Times: With umbrellas in one hand and picket signs in the other, Los Angeles teachers braved cold, drizzly weather Monday morning as they walked off the job…
From today’s Los Angeles Times: A last-ditch bargaining effort to avert a Los Angeles teachers’ strike fell short Monday, although the two sides have agreed to meet again on Wednesday morning,…
From today’s Los Angeles Times: The Arizona governor signed a plan Thursday to give striking teachers a 19% pay raise, ending their five-day walkout after a dramatic all-night legislative session…
From today’s The Guardian: When teachers in West Virginia went on strike in February, there was little indication that a swath of other states would follow suit. But that action in the…
From today’s LA Times: Thousands of Kentucky teachers filled the streets near the state Capitol in Frankfort on a cold, overcast Monday to rally for education funding. Teachers and other school…
From today’s New York Times: When she woke up one morning last week, Tiffany Bell, a teacher at Hamilton Elementary School here, had $35 in her bank account. On take-home…
In honor of MLK Day, we post a short educational video here with excerpts from Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Baldwin that draw the connection between racial injustice and…