Teachers unions in West Virginia claim to have walked out of their classrooms a second time in a year “for the kids,” but a resident journalist says many parents and teachers are keeping quiet about their distrust of that claim due to “overwhelming fear and intimidation related to unions.”
The Los Angeles Times analyzed the ongoing wave of teachers strikes across California and the nation on Sunday, and determined that there is no broader movement — even though “#RedforEd” organizers might beg to differ.
West Virginia teachers will continue to strike into Wednesday, although Republican Gov. Jim Justice has vowed since January he will not sign into law an education bill allowing charter schools and education savings accounts in the state.
The #RedForEd campaign has spurred West Virginia teachers to walk out of their classrooms Tuesday, nearly one year since their last teacher strike.
“Red for Ed,” a nationwide campaign of teachers’ strikes, will continue this Thursday in Oakland, California, as the Oakland Education Association (OEA) plans to strike against the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). Bay Area public radio station KQED reported Saturday: “Teachers
Los Angeles teachers are still on strike as of Tuesday morning, after negotiations between the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union and the L.A. Unified School District (LAUSD) came closer to an agreement over the long weekend.
Officially, the strike is about teachers’ demands for smaller class sizes, additional support staff, and a 6.5% pay raise retroactive to last year (the district is offering 6%, phased in over the next two years).
Officially, the strike is about higher pay, smaller class sizes, and additional support staff. Unofficially, the strike is about protecting the clout of the teachers’ union as charter schools — many of them un-unionized — expand in L.A.
In a post at Truth in American Education, parent activists Denis Ian and Michelle Moore write that – because of the radical shift leftward they have taken – teachers’ unions are actually at war with parents.
“There is absolutely no good reason to put students and parents through the upheaval of a strike. The sad fact is that interests from outside our community are using our students and our schools as a means to advance their national anti-charter platform.”
California charter schools are now required to teach comprehensive sex ed, thanks to the efforts of Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and Act for Women and Girls.
When he vetoed the earlier bill, Brown said the “ambiguous terms used in this bill could be interpreted to restrict the ability of nonprofit charter schools to continue using for-profit vendors.”
“This is absolutely criminal to deprive our children of the education they deserve,” he continued. “The extra tax money that they passed in prop 30 it’s not going into the classroom; it’s going to administrators and pensions. We need to get that money into the classroom and we need to give our children and our parents the education they deserve and that includes building more charters and giving parents choice and encouraging homeschooling.”
Billionaire Meg Whitman, who was the Republican nominee for California governor in 2010 and lost to Jerry Brown, is backing Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa for governor in 2018.
Critics say that an advertisement supporting Democrat gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa is falsely claiming that former President Barack Obama endorsed his campaign.
The increasingly expensive and crowded California governor’s race has turned into a proxy war between the Golden State’s teachers’ unions and activists who back charter schools.
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will address former GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE) when it celebrates its 10th annual summit.
The so-called “resistance” to Trump continues to define Democratic Party politics across the nation, as California’s four Democratic candidates for governor in 2018 competed to show off their anti-Trump credentials at a debate in San Francisco.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has announced his latest plan to invest $1.7 billion to improve K-12 public education over the next five years.
It’s the book “every American taxpayer should read,” says international lawyer Robert “Bob” Amsterdam about his newly-released publication “Empire of Deceit: An Investigation of the Gülen Charter School Network.”
The president of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and his cousin were each charged with conspiracy and perjury related to alleged improper donations to campaign funds.
A Gallup poll reveals 71 percent of Americans rate private schools highest in terms of providing excellent or good K-12 education, while only 44 percent say public schools do the same.
Charter school advocates in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) won a major victory Tuesday as two of their candidates won seats on the school board, giving them the majority.
The Los Angeles Unified School Board (LAUSD) passed a resolution Tuesday declaring all schools “sanctuaries” for any illegal alien students and their families — even criminal aliens — who might be facing deportation.
Newly sworn-in U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was greeted by a group of protesters blocking the front entrance to a Washington, D.C. school she was scheduled to visit Friday.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the federal education department was approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee along party lines, 12-11.
One Texas lawmaker’s bill, if passed during the 2017 legislative session, stands to derail school choice options for failing campuses by taking them down a progressive community schools path and bypassing existing options that include re-purposing a campus as a public charter school.
Former First Lady Barbara Bush says she is “enthusiastically endorsing Betsy DeVos to be our next secretary of education.”
The executive director and the senior fellow at Boston-based think tank Pioneer Institute warn Trump federal Education Department pick Betsy DeVos “to understand that the best school innovation comes from states, localities, and parents,” not the federal government.
Donald Trump’s education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos joined him for a “Thank You” rally in her home state of Michigan where she told the crowd making education great again means “finally putting an end to the federal Common Core.”
President-elect Donald Trump’s education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos has contributed both her wealth and influence to the creation of more charter schools in her home state of Michigan, but national test scores show the state has not fared well as a result, says a report in Politico.
Dr. Larry Arnn explains that because Hillsdale rejects federal funding, it enjoys the freedom to teach its students what they need to know without interference and mandates from the centralized bureaucracy that is the U.S. Department of Education.
Leaders of the Michigan grassroots group battling the highly unpopular Common Core standards reform are urging President-elect Donald Trump to “drain the swamp” and “pull the plug” on his education secretary pick, Betsy DeVos.
President-elect Donald Trump’s education secretary choice Betsy DeVos backed Marco Rubio during the GOP primary race, referring to Trump as an “interloper” who would never become the Republican Party’s nominee.
Anti-Common Core grassroots groups of parents and teachers urged Donald Trump to abandon DeVos as his choice, citing her support for the education reform policies of pro-Common Core Jeb Bush and her influence through the Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) in favor of Common Core.
Former Washington, D.C. chancellor of schools Michelle Rhee announced on Twitter Tuesday that she is “not pursuing” the position of U.S. Secretary of Education in the Trump administration.
President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly meeting Friday with Democrat Michelle Rhee, the former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor and potential candidate for the post of U.S. secretary of education.
Texas education officials dismissed a complaint filed by the Turkish government against the state’s largest charter school network, Harmony Public Schools, reportedly linked to reclusive Islamist cleric Fethullah Gülen.
Ivanka Trump held a question-and-answer session with students who asked her if she plans to take a government position if her father is elected president. She responded, “We’ll see,” but added she is a mother of three children and runs two businesses.
The Republic of Turkey filed a 32-page complaint against the Houston-based Harmony Public Schools Tuesday. It asks the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to investigate and sanction the public charter chain over its practices and affiliations.
