Sentences with phrase «teacher walkout»

Weingarten said she does not want to use the word «strike,» but wants to use the strategy of recent teacher walkouts in Oklahoma and West Virginia as a model to fight against school - choice reforms.

He cited the Oklahoma teacher walkouts in which teachers are demanding more resources for education.

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

The recent teacher walkouts in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Kentucky have not only been remarkable for their scope and success, but have also rapidly reshuffled the educational debates.

The statewide teacher walkout resulted in six lost instructional days and affected the majority of Arizona's 1.1 million public school students.

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.

The «March for Students and Rally for Respect» is playing out in the context of recent #RedForEd teacher walkouts and strikes in Arizona, West Virginia and Kentucky.

North Carolina is the sixth state to see teacher walkouts in the past four months.

A successful teacher walkout in West Virginia has brought the topic of teacher pay to the forefront of public conversation.

As the Arizona teacher walkout approaches its fourth consecutive day, we wanted to alert you to some interesting news: the overwhelming majority of Arizona charter - school teachers and students were in class Monday!

«So, what we're doing is going to Raleigh on that day to fight for public education, but we're also making sure that our community is going to hold us down here,» said Bryan Proffitt, president of the Durham Association of Educators, a teacher advocacy organization that organized the Durham teacher walkout on May 16.

TEACHERS / UNIONS BuzzFeed: Unions Ready to Use DeVos Against School Choice Democrats KQED: Unions prepare to lose in the courthouse, strike back in the statehouse WashPost: WV teachers traded classrooms for picket lines NPR: WV Teacher Walkouts, School Closures Continue The Atlantic: WV's Teachers Are Not Satisfied

An unprecedented wave of public school teacher walkouts and strikes, impossible to consider even a few months ago, is overturning assumptions that teachers and other public school workers are either apolitical or fearful to act.

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.

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.

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.

Voters who have strong opinions about the Spokane teacher walkout this week likely will find a school board candidate on their August primary ballot who shares their stance.

AZ Central: Parents of students with special needs brace for teacher walkout Washington Post: School support staff scrape by on meager earnings NPR: Most Americans Support Teachers» Right To Strike ABC News: Amid strikes, Americans back teacher raises

Teacher walkouts seem to be the trend across the country.

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.

Her viral post comes amid Oklahoma's multi-day teacher walkout in protest of lacking school funding.

Philadelphia's public schools, which just re-opened Oct. 29 following a 50 - day teacher walkout, could be forced to close earlier than planned at the end of this school year for lack of money, according to Superintendent of Schools Michael P. Marcase.

With schools back in session after the #RedforEd teacher walkout, and summer vacation just a few days away in most districts, the intensity of the Arizona education movement has relaxed into a stea

In fact, the recent teacher walkouts in several states have brought renewed attention to the issue of teacher pay.

When West Virginia Governor Jim Justice signed legislation to increase teacher pay by 5 percent earlier this month, ending a statewide teacher walkout that closed schools in all of West Virginia's 55 counties for nine days, other teachers took notice.

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.

The digital marquee outside Highland Arts Elementary School in Mesa, Ariz., seen at the start of class Wednesday, warns of the effects of the teacher walkout on Thursday.

Cutting taxes rather than investing in essential services spurred the recent teacher walkouts.

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.

Chicago Public Schools will open more than 100 school, library and park district sites to students affected by Friday's one - day teacher walkout, but district officials warn they can't accommodate all 300,000 - plus kids, and parents should find an alternate option if possible.

Here's what I learned about how schools manipulate kids for politics when I asked several parents to share experiences learned during the Oklahoma teacher walkout.

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.

To make up for five instructional days lost during the teacher walkout, the Jenks Public Schools Board of Education voted in favor of adding...

That makes this the perfect moment to review the teacher walkout coverage of the past couple of weeks and bring any lessons learned into future coverage.

To make up for five instructional days lost during the teacher walkout, the Jenks Public Schools Board of Education voted in favor of adding 30 minutes to each school day beginning Monday,...

To make up for five instructional days lost during the teacher walkout, the Jenks Public Schools Board of Education voted in favor of adding 30 minutes to each school day beginning Monday, April 23, and adding two additional full days to...

Kentucky teachers had rather limited success, while Arizona is on the verge of a teacher walkout later this week.

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.

Scenario 1: Future K - 12 teacher walkouts are ineffective.

Scenario 3: Future K - 12 teacher walkouts are effective — and paid for by tax increases.

By EMILY WENDLER & QUINTON CHANDLER • APR 5, 2018 The Oklahoma teacher walkout and educators» demands for more school funding dominates the news.

UNIONS LOSE CONTROL: The 74's Mike Antonucci penned a piece describing how the media coverage of the teacher walkouts was largely missing the behind - the - scenes story of how state and national teachers unions are, ahem, sharing control with independent teacher advocacy groups.

A report from the Brookings Institution after the 2012 Chicago strike explained that teacher walkouts have an outsized impact on underprivileged children who can least afford it.

«We may not as an organization understand everything that was involved with the teacher walkout, however we want to give that same unconditional acceptance of the teachers, we want to honor them, just like these little doggies honor us,» Davis said.