Teachers win as state high court kills Louisiana voucher law
Another Republican statewide scheme to trash public schools and school teachers, especially unionized teachers, ran afoul of yet another state constitution.
Those pushing school reform have never been in a classroom
Respect teachers? The Republican-dominated Michigan legislature has done the exact opposite.
19 arrested in attempt to stop school closings
The mood was boisterous and upbeat as some 2,000 demonstrators massed outside Philadelphia School District headquarters in an attempt to stop threatened closing of nearly 30 public schools.
Threatened Philly school closings face growing resistance
The district announced the names of the schools to be shuttered; in the late afternoon a dense crowd of hundreds of protesters massed on the steps of district headquarters.
Lesson for the day – stop Fat Cats from robbing our schools
TIFs - or Tax Increment Financing - is a method powerful financial interests have devised to divert public monies to private coffers.
Today in history: 200,000 students boycotted Chicago public schools
On October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups organized Freedom Day, a mass boycott and demonstration against segregated schools and inadequate resources for black students.
Parents and students back Chicago teachers
Hundreds of parents and students demonstrated their solidarity with striking Chicago teachers in rallies across the city Sept.18.
Chicago teachers to vote Sunday on ending strike
CHICAGO- Teachers here will vote on Sunday, Sept. 16, whether to continue or end the weeklong strike. Some 800 elected union delegates met today and decided they needed to see - in writing - more details on the framework hammered out by negotiators.
In Chicago, a movement is born to reclaim public education
Parents, students and community groups, whose pent up outrage at school privatization dictated by Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been unleashed by the strike, joined teachers on the picket lines.
Chicago teachers strike for good schools
Declaring "enough is enough," 28,000 Chicago public school teachers, paraprofessionals, clinicians, social workers and counselors went on strike September 10.
