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Pros and cons of Oklahoma teacher walkout coverage By Alexander Russo The Oklahoma teacher walkout is over and teacher protests in Colorado and Arizona are just picking up.

Hansen places these teacher protests in the context of a national «war on teachers» narrative, fueled by working conditions declining, erosion of benefits and increased spending on charter schools and vouchers for families to attend private schools.

The week - long walkout was one of the biggest teacher protests in a year marked by job actions.

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Over the weekend students, teachers, parents and a whole array of civilians took to the streets to participate in the March For Our Lives protest.

Parents, students and teachers from South Florida, the state's Democratic stronghold, have been a forceful presence in the Capitol since last week, when busloads of Stoneman Douglas High students spent two days lobbying — and protesting — lawmakers, urging them to take more far - reaching action and ban all assault weapons.

Last Monday, BC teachers held a Day of Action in communities across the province to protest the BC government's decision to legislate a contract and put an end to their collective bargaining process.

Educators in Phoenix and Denver rallied for more education funding at their state capitols on April 26, as part of a wave of teacher protests that have...

Members of the Committee of retired Teachers of Puerto Rico's Teachers Federation protest against the underfunding of their pension system in San Juan on March 18, 2016.

This May 1, 2018, file photo, shows Arizona teacher Aurelia Ionescu, front right, chanting with other teachers as protest organizers at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix.

In the midst of the national conversation about arming teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun control laws, a high school teacher...

In home schooling, women are the chief teachers, and one may think that their decision to stay at home with the kids is a protest against regnant feminisms.

The Nigeria Labour Congress is currently leading over one thousand workers in Kaduna state in a protest in solidarity with the 21,000 teachers sacked by the Kaduna State government.

West Virginia's teachers are refusing to go to school for a fourth day today in protest of pay that is among the lowest in the nation.

It was already the largest teachers» protest in state history.

Last year's event was attended by a rally by members of the New York State United Teachers Union across the street in protest of his educational policies.

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) and National Union of Teachers (NUT) at schools, colleges and universities across London will tomorrow (Wednesday) take strike action in protest against changes to their pensions.

«What the state workers are protesting, without prejudice to the Paris Club refunds, are the increment in wages to primary school teachers, local government workers and the increment of pensioners» emoluments,» it said.

In Wisconsin another one of those evil right to work states the teachers were protesting the cuts and talking how Scott Walker was so bad.

The protest took place on March 14, one month to the day of the massacre in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in which 17 students and teachers were killed.

The teachers union and its allies will protest outside the annual Business Council of New York State's meeting in Lake George on Wednesday.

The vice president of New York State United Teachers, Andy Pallotta, who was also at the protest, says Cuomo's going in the wrong direction.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

Thousands of students, teachers, political activists and others staged a massive protest Saturday at the state Capitol, expressing anger at gun violence, particularly in schools, and frustration that Congress has not enacted tougher restrictions.

Plans for the protests circulated widely on social media on Saturday, as students, parents, teachers and neighbors gathered to express their grief over the fatal shooting of 14 students and three staff members at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

«When teachers in the school got no relief the UFT and community leaders protested on the steps of Tweed.

The ranks of the anti-Cuomo protestors were stronger, with more than 1,000 teachers and public education advocates marching through the Empire State Plaza concourse, clogging security checkpoints into the Capitol and rallying on the Million Dollar Staircase in a boisterous protest of the governor's plan.

Both the United Federation of Teachers and the New York State United Teachers blasted Cuomo for what they saw as his demonizing of teachers and dogged his events around the state in Teachers and the New York State United Teachers blasted Cuomo for what they saw as his demonizing of teachers and dogged his events around the state in Teachers blasted Cuomo for what they saw as his demonizing of teachers and dogged his events around the state in teachers and dogged his events around the state in protest.

Cameroon teachers on strike in battle over English or French Cameroonian forces have cracked down on protests in the English - speaking region that erupted last October, beating and arresting protesters, some of whom face the death penalty in military courts — under the same anti-terrorism law used to prosecute the journalist Ahmed Abba.

Teachers contain two unique qualities which make them perilous in a protest: patience and the ability to crowd control.

«We're going to fight this,» said Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron, as he gathered with some two hundred elected officials, teachers, parents and activists on the steps of Tweed Courthouse, at the latest in a series of protests against Black Thursday evening.

Last week, thousands of the students and teachers across the nation walked out of their buildings to protest the gun violence crisis in our country.

NYSUT President Andy Pallotta leads marchers in Saratoga Springs Sept. 12, protesting the SUNY Charter Schools Institute's then - proposal to certify charter school teachers.

Amid complaints of disruption and angst in the classrooms, the state's major teachers union launched a petition drive asking parents to protest the use of a new set of standardized tests.

The U.F.T. has organized internal emergency meetings, 11 community forums and a series of protests and rallies in an attempt to show that Cuomo's proposals would hurt teachers.

Teachers from across the state will stage a protest tonight in Albany against a national testing company.

City and state teachers unions have been funneling millions of dollars into a grassroots protest group that has been targeting EpiPen manufacturer Mylan — even though their pension funds are heavily invested in the drug maker.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) is holding the one - day industrial action in protest against the three - year pay package agreed by the government in January this year.

Students in public Secondary Schools in Rivers State have staged a protest to register their grievances over the unavailability of teachers in their Schools.

Around 100 teachers from several regions of the state gathered in the biting cold to protest what they believe is Governor Cuomo's unfair stance against teachers and the union that represents them.

On the anniversary of the Columbine shooting, teachers and students at Columbine High took part in community service in an effort to turn the day into something meaningful and thousands of students across the country took part in walkouts to protest gun violence.

Wednesday parents, students and community members gathered outside the Executive Mansion on Eagle Street in downtown Albany to protest what they say are «attacks on public education and teachers» and to call on the governor to «listen to all stakeholders before bringing forth another wave of misguided educational policies designed to dismantle public education.»

The teachers union and its allies will protest outside New York's annual Business Council meeting in Lake George on Wednesday.

City and state teachers unions have been funneling millions of dollars into a grassroots protest group that has been targeting EpiPen manufacturer Mylan — even though their pension funds are heavily invested in the drugmaker, The Post has learned.

The pro government protest came 24 hours after leaders of the labour unions and the Nigeria Union of Teachers joined others in Kaduna state to protest the sack of 21,000 teachers who failed a competency test organized by the govTeachers joined others in Kaduna state to protest the sack of 21,000 teachers who failed a competency test organized by the govteachers who failed a competency test organized by the government.

The tests have become controversial in recent years after being tied to teacher evaluations and the new learning standards, prompting many parents to skip them in protest.

Meanwhile, Governor Nasir El - Rufai while speaking on Channels Television reiterated his stance to sack the teachers who failed the competency test in spite of the protests, stressing that he will not rescind the government decision under whatever guise.

Some of the pro-government protesters who spoke to our correspondent said, they were protesting in support of the government to weed out unqualified teachers and redundant workers in the state.

ALBANY — More than 1,000 teachers and public education advocates marched through the Empire State Plaza concourse on Monday, clogging security checkpoints into the Capitol and rallying on the Million Dollar Staircase in a boisterous protest of Governor Andrew Cuomo's education reform proposals.

Magruder, a former teacher who has been active in protesting the Donald Trump agenda, has only raised about $ 1,900 for her campaign.

The victory, after weeks of cliffhanger budget negotiations and literally hundreds of protest actions by concerned parents and educators, was sweet indeed for teachers who can now close up their classrooms with the knowledge that they'll see their students again in September.