By Justin Akers Chacón, AFT Local 1931 Over the last two years, public school teachers across the country have gone on strike, held mass, statewide rallies, coordinated “sick-outs”, and taken a variety of other actions to confront and reverse the attacks on working...
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This is a shocking development: The infamous billionaire Koch brothers have a plan to disrupt American education, beginning with five states. Their goal is to break up the public education system and enable public funding to flow to every kind of school, whether...
Through their historic strike, Los Angeles teachers have taught working people across the country how to fight back and win. By Eric Blanc Elementary-school teachers at a rally in downtown Los Angeles, January 18, 2019. (AP Photo / Damian Dovarganes) Los Angeles...
This year the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday falls in the midst of one of the biggest teachers strikes in recent American history. And Dr. King, who gave his life while supporting a public sector sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, Tennessee because he saw it...
By Fred Glass Marianne O'Brien, second from right, and her fellow teachers pose in downtown Los Angeles after rallying at City Hall, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. A tentative deal between Los Angeles school officials and the teachers union will allow educators to return to...
By ANGELA HART Under the plan, each college district could use their state funding to waive fees or expand student programs while continuing to charge students. | Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP As part of his broad education blueprint for California, Gov.-elect Gavin...
