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Jun 17 2022
Analysis
Critical Race Theory Panic Is Stopping Teachers from Teaching About Juneteenth
Before President Biden signed legislation recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday in 2021, most Americans would’ve had to Google it if you’d asked them to explain the holiday’s significance.
While some Black communities have celebrated the day marking the announcement of the end of slavery in Texas–especially there in the Lone Star state–understanding of the holiday varied widely,
Vice
Jun 23 2022
News
European Union makes Ukraine a candidate for EU membership
The European Union agreed Thursday to put Ukraine on a path toward EU membership, acting with uncharacteristic speed and unity to pull the embattled country further away from Russia’s influence and bind it more closely to the West.
Meeting at a summit in Brussels, leaders of the EU’s 27 nations mustered the required unanimous approval to grant Ukraine candidate status. That sets in
Associated Press
Apr 06 2013
News
Maryland lawmakers pass bill forcing teachers to pay union fees, reversing right to work trend
Maryland lawmakers agreed this week to require all public school teachers to pay union fees a move that bolsters the states connection to organized labor as others move toward a right-to-work status.
Fox News (Online News)
Jun 13 2022
Analysis
“We’re expected to be human shields”: Teachers are unprotected — and scared
The day after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Elizabeth, a first grade teacher at a school across the state, looked down at the sidewalk to read what one of her students had scribbled in chalk at the entrance to their school: “If you have a gun, get out pleas.” The child’s message, innocent with its spelling error, was decorated with the drawing of a little white
Vox
Jun 08 2022
News
Uvalde mass shooting: Wounded teacher condemns police as cowards
A teacher wounded in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has criticised police as "cowards" for delaying taking action while his pupils were killed.
In a harrowing interview with ABC News he said he told his students to pretend to be asleep during the shooting.
Eleven of them died when the gunman stalked his and an adjacent classroom for over an hour as police stood in the hall
BBC News
Sep 01 2020
Opinion
New York Teachers Are Still Ready to Strike
Earlier today, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and United Federation of Teachers (UFT) president Michael Mulgrew struck a deal that will delay the opening of schools. Until it was finalized, the union and its 75,000 members were on the verge of their first strike in forty-five years.
Early reports indicated in-school learning would be pushed back by eleven days, with additional time
Jacobin
Oct 16 2019
News
No classes, parents scramble as Chicago teacher strike looms
CHICAGO (AP) — Parents and community groups are scrambling to prepare for an expected strike by Chicago teachers that prompted city officials to preemptively cancel Thursday’s classes in the nation’s third-largest school district.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said during a news conference that the district’s 25,000 teachers represented by the Chicago Teachers Union would almost certainly walk
Associated Press
Jun 04 2022
Analysis
Teachers after Texas attack: ‘None of us are built for this’
Teacher Jessica Salfia was putting up graduation balloons last month at her West Virginia high school when two of them popped, setting off panic in a crowded hallway between classes.
One student dropped to the floor. Two others lunged into open classrooms. Salfia quickly shouted, “It’s balloons! Balloons!” and apologized as the teenagers realized the noise didn’t come from gunshots.
Associated Press
Jun 02 2022
News
Poll: Majority Says Arming Teachers Would Make Schools Safer
Nearly 60% of likely voters say they believe that arming properly trained teachers can make schools a safer place, according to a poll published Wednesday by the Trafalgar Group.
The survey, conducted in conjunction with the Convention of States Action (COSA) among 1,091 likely U.S. voters May 25-29, comes in the aftermath of a mass shooting an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that
Newsmax (News)
Aug 12 2020
Data
Unions
* Labor unions are organizations that negotiate with employers on behalf of employees.[1]
* The phrase “trade union” is sometimes used as a synonym for “labor union,” but it is also used in a more narrow sense to signify “a labor union of workers in related crafts, as distinguished from general workers or a union including all workers in an industry.”[2] [3]
* Federal law defines
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