by Beth Holmes | Mar 21, 2022 | News, Teacher Issues
San Francisco teachers are staging an overnight protest in their district office, and it will continue until they’re paid, they say. The San Francisco Unified School District migrated to a new payroll system in January, according to teachers. And since they...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 10, 2022 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Insurrection Day is tomorrow, though history probably won’t call it that. Thursday, January 6 is the one year anniversary of the Capitol riot, the first violent breech of our nation’s capitol in its 221-year history. Teachers have been debating how to...
by Sarah Green | Oct 10, 2014 | News, Student Issues
On Wednesday October 8th, hundreds of Philadelphia high school students from at least two high schools walked out of classes in protest of a recent cancellation of labor agreements with the teachers’ union. The cancellation occurred early Monday morning in a rushed...
by Sarah Green | Sep 26, 2014 | News, Student Issues
On Wednesday September 24th, nearly 1,000 Denver high school students from several area schools participated in a series of student demonstrations opposing proposed changes to high school history standards by a conservative-led school board. The demonstration was...
by Sarah Green | Jun 26, 2014 | News, Teacher Issues
Three hundred teachers and their supports have spoken out about the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, citing its wide influence over the US education system. Activists have a website, Teachers’ Letters to Bill Gates, which provides a forum online for teachers to...
