Sentences with phrase «teacher walkouts»

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

«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.

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,...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Another national walkout, organized by a different group of students, is planned for April 20, the 19th anniversary of the 1999 attack at Colorado's Columbine High School that killed 12 students and a teacher and left two dozen more injured.

A school district in Waukesha, Wisconsin, sent a letter to parents telling them that the school district is not involved in a walkout that is scheduled for March 14 and that teachers and students would not be excused if they participate.

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

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.

The Arizona walkout is part of a bubbling national uprising over low teacher pay and funding.

The walkout staged by Chicago Public Schools teachers this week had a ripple effect on thousands of children throughout the city.

Teachers are set to be joined by other public sector workers in a mass walkout at the end of the month.

Nik Jones, from Wolsingham School and Community College in County Durham, is one of thousands of members of the National Union of Teachers taking part in the walkout.

«Gun control now,» Cuomo chanted, reclining on the sidewalk in his black suit and tie, along with students and teachers from nearby Leadership & Public Service High School who joined in nationwide school walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland shooting.

He spoke out as sources at the civil service PCS union, which joined teachers on strike in June in a row over the Government's pension reforms, said its national executive had agreed to hold another one - day walkout in the autumn.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Parents, teachers, and anti-gun violence advocates are throwing their support behind Buffalo Public Schools students who are participating in Wednesday's national school walkout day.

The GMB and Unite unions are yet to announce the results of their ballot, while the National Union of Teachers is also planning a walkout on the same date.

Concerns about the «unrealistic» reforms being pushed through by the coalition prompted a walkout by teachers and other public sector staff last month.

Michael Gove criticises what he calls «an ideologically motivated minority» of NUT members for a planned walkout by teachers on Thursday.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) will ballot its members over a one - day strike, in what would be the union's first mass walkout for two decades.

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.

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.

(In my own hometown of Seattle, students, staff and parents at a local high school staged a walkout in 2014 to protest the district's move to eliminate a critical Latin teacher.)

Nearly 240,000 teachers left their classrooms in the East African nation on Sept. 25, a walkout that has effectively stopped instruction in the country, according to John Musambayi Katumanga, the president of the Kenya National Union of Tteachers left their classrooms in the East African nation on Sept. 25, a walkout that has effectively stopped instruction in the country, according to John Musambayi Katumanga, the president of the Kenya National Union of TeachersTeachers.

Just a few weeks ago, when the West Virginia walkout blindsided most everyone, the teachers were showered with goodwill.