Tag: teachers
Essential jobs and public school teachers in the US fail to...
Home health aides, retail salespersons, fast-food workers, and public school teachers are essential to the economy and society, yet their wages fall far short of the cost of living.
How books can be used to build up America or to...
The assault on classroom libraries represents one front in DeSantis’s scorched-earth campaign to divide communities and marginalize certain Americans.
The real reason teachers are quitting
Defend our teachers. Pay our teachers. Value our teachers. The work they do determines our future.
Can community schools rescue a ‘troubled’ district?
A contentious contract negotiation between teachers and a district in the Washington D.C. suburbs could foretell whether a transformative strategy for school improvement can dislodge entrenched leadership practices.
Why Michigan public school parents might be too strong of a...
Parents in DeVos’s backyard tell right-wing radicals, “No thank you to divisive, partisan agendas in schools.”
Minneapolis teacher strike brought unity, victory and a reminder of the...
Teachers ended a nearly three-week strike, citing advances in pay and working conditions for many members. But more work remains.
How community schools are helping a hard-hit city dig out of...
Rocked by vanishing industries and charter school expansions, Erie public schools are fighting back with a “transformative” education approach.
In Minnesota’s ‘most diverse city,’ schools are addressing the community’s deep...
Educators use the community schools approach to tackle underlying causes of disparities that show up in classrooms.
Teachers are on a tightrope with no safety net
The hybrid model teachers are being thrust into during the pandemic isn’t sustainable without more resources and support.
Online charter schools are not a solution to education in a...
Coronavirus and racism combined with online charters would create a plague of injustice that will never be wiped out.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.