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Apr 16 2024
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Tennessee students and parents protest arming teachers
A mother and son embrace yesterday during a protest against a bill that would allow teachers to carry guns. Photo: Ray Di Pietro Covenant School parents and student protesters made a passionate appeal Monday to stop legislation that would allow some public school teachers to carry concealed guns on campus. Why it matters: The bill would continue a years-long trend of Tennessee Republicans
AxiosApr 11 2024
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Bill allowing armed teachers advances
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AxiosApr 26 2024
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Gym at Chicago's Farragut Career Academy renamed for beloved teacher, coach
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Longtime Farragut Career Academy teacher and basketball coach William "Wolf" Nelson was honored with a special ceremony Friday night. The gym at Farragut now bears Nelson's name. A new banner in his honor was unveiled at the ceremony. Chicago Public SCHools Deputy Chief of College and Career Services Ali Muhammad, Farragut Principal Virag Nanavati, and Ald. Michael Rodriguez (
CBS News (Online)Apr 04 2024
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Number of teachers quitting jumps
Apr. 5—TRIAD — The teacher turnover rates for Guilford County Schools and North Carolina soared in 2023 from the previous year, and 1 in 9 educators left the profession statewide, according to the newest state report. But in both cases, that only matches the national average for teacher turnover, and the state's school districts have been finding more teachers. Meanwhile, the Pew Research
Yahoo NewsApr 16 2024
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2 CVS pharmacies in Rhode Island file to unionize
Guild officials say understaffing at these retail stores has reached a “crisis level” for pharmacies across the US, as the industry faces severe shortages. Workers at pharmacies located in Westerly and in the Wakefield section of South Kingstown filed their petitions to the National Labor Relations Board, according to Guild officials. The actions come three weeks after workers at CVS Omnicare
The Boston GlobeApr 16 2024
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Tennessee VW workers voting on unionization this week
Employees at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant will vote on whether to unionize this week in the first test of the United Auto Workers’ new organization drive. The more than 4,000 workers at the Chattanooga plant will begin voting Wednesday and continue until 8 p.m. Friday. The pro-union push needs a simple majority to succeed. The countdown to a vote began last month, when the UAW
Washington TimesApr 26 2024
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Glendale teachers surprised to find their taxes already filed -- fraudulently
Los Angeles TimesApr 23 2024
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Handwriting is becoming extinct and teachers are battling to keep cursive alive
The pen might be mightier than the sword, but it could soon be just as relevant. Educators and parents are observing a surge in US youths who don’t know how to read or write in cursive — which they blame on handwriting increasingly becoming obsolete in the digital age. This handwriting illiteracy has in turn made them unable to perform basic adult tasks. “My 20 year-old-granddaughter struggles
New York Post (News)Jul 21 2020
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Will Teachers’ Unions Reelect Trump?
The science says it’s safe to reopen PK-12 yet the unions insist on holding the children hostage.
During the next six weeks the nation’s 51 million public school students, with the assistance of their parents, would normally be preparing for the next phase of their education. This year, despite the absence of scientific data indicating that a return to in-person class attendance
The American SpectatorApr 19 2024
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VW Workers in Tennessee Vote for Union, a Labor Milestone
In a landmark victory for organized labor, workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee have voted overwhelmingly to join the United Automobile Workers union, becoming the first nonunion auto plant in a Southern state to do so. In a statement late Friday, the company said that the union had won 2,628 votes, with 985 opposed, in a three-day election. Two earlier bids by the U.A.W. to organize the
New York Times (News)