Sentences with phrase «state teacher walkouts»

If the strike takes place as scheduled, Arizona's would be fifth in a wave of red - state teacher walkouts that began in West Virginia two months ago and has since spread to Oklahoma, Kentucky and Colorado.

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Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.

Support for Oklahoma teachers has sustained five days into their walkout at the state Capitol, according to an exclusive News 9 / News on 6 poll released Friday.

Arizona's teachers demanded a 20 - percent raise — four times what West Virginia's teachers sought — and threatened a walkout if the state didn't step up.

The education advocacy that fueled the teacher walkout also led to a surge of candidates filing for office, including a few surprises in the race for state superintendent.

As teachers have staged walkouts and strikes in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and perhaps Arizona, most of the news coverage has focused on big - picture questions about state education budgets or average teacher salaries.

As Oklahoma's teacher «walkout» to ostensibly fund teacher raises and classroom needs endures its second week, the atmosphere at the state capitol has become almost festival - like.

In a filing to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, CPS repeats its long - held argument that Friday's walkout by the Chicago Teachers Union is illegal because it doesn't follow the state law governing teacher strikes.

A state labor panel on Thursday agreed to ask a judge to issue a temporary injunction against strikes like the one carried out by the Chicago Teachers Union on April 1 until the larger issue of whether such walkouts are legal is resolved.

Because of the «wildfire» teacher walkouts in at least five states, public spending at the state level is increasing in Arizona, West Virginia, Colorado, and elsewhere.

Oklahoma's largest teachers union Thursday announced an end to a walkout that has drawn thousands of educators out of classrooms and to the state Capitol.

Public school advocates gathered enough signatures to get a repeal measure on the state ballot, forcing him to navigate the fallout from teacher walkouts and an effort to overturn a signature accomplishment while asking for another term.

The movement for increased teacher pay and school funding has prompted walkouts in other Republican - led states like West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky and left lawmakers scrambling to meet teacher demands.

All four states are right - to - work states where unions have limited collective bargaining rights and teachers who participate in a walkout risk dismissal and even loss of their teaching credentials.

Teachers in Arizona are planning their first - ever statewide walkout next Thursday to demand that state lawmakers there increase funding for K - 12 schools, a prerequisite for the salary increases educators are demanding i school districts across the state.

The state's largest teachers union, the Oklahoma Education Association, says it will announce the details of a statewide teacher walkout on Thursday.

More than 55 teachers union groups in Washington state have voted to go on «rolling walkouts» not only to protest the lack of funding for public schools but also the diversion of hundreds of millions of dollars away from the classroom and into the pockets of Wall Street corporations that make the high stakes tests.

In the first public press conference since talk of a statewide teacher walkout began, the largest Oklahoma teachers union laid out its demands for the state legislature.

March 26, 2018 Warrior Nation: For the last few weeks, the possibility of a teacher walkout, scheduled to begin April 2nd, has dominated news headlines across the state.

Scenario 4: Future K - 12 teacher walkouts are effective — and paid for by reducing state spending in other areas.

The Chicago Teachers Union voted in favor of a one - day teacher walkout on April 1 in an effort to push Gov. Bruce Rauner and state lawmakers to provide a new funding plan for the district.

Thousands of Oklahoma teachers went on strike Monday to demand higher pay and more education funding, digging in for a prolonged walkout as discontent spreads among public educators in conservative states.

After West Virginia educators» nine - day strike ended in a resounding labor victory last month that secured 5 percent pay raises, teachers in several more red states launched walkouts and rallied at state capitols this week.

Teachers engaging in walkouts — now and in the future — deserve to work in school systems, supported by their states, that allocate resources strategically to help them thrive.

Spokane Public Schools teachers and staff voted Wednesday to have a one - day walkout on May 27 to protest a lack of state funding for schools.

Years before the groundswell of demands for higher teacher pay led to a school walkout in Arizona, one of the state's high - profile charter schools has subsidized teachers» income by pushing parents to pay.

Only teachers in Arizona and Colorado (it's no coincidence that both states are experiencing teacher walkouts) have less competitive teacher salaries than North Carolina teachers.

It's no coincidence North Carolina's protests follow mammoth teacher walkouts in generally conservative states like Kentucky, Oklahoma and Arizona — states that, like North Carolina, have seen public school funding plummet since the recession.