teachers strike

Oakland educators join the nationwide wave of teacher strikes

February 22, 2019 By Marilyn Bechtel

The teachers have been without a contract since July 2017 and are the lowest-paid in Alameda County.

Striking Chicago charter school teachers score big win

February 19, 2019 By Special to People’s World

The agreement ensures that future increases in public school funding are invested directly in the schools, rather than being captured by corporate management fees. Strikers were also able to beat back management’s attempt to cut family...

Walking and talking with L.A. teachers on strike

January 23, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Angelenos are a lot wiser now as to what they’re up against—nothing less than the destruction and selloff of our public ownership of schools.

Overcrowded classrooms, privatization schemes force LA teachers to strike

January 14, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

The teachers in Los Angeles, with the support of students and parents, are striking the second largest public school system in the nation.

Los Angeles braces itself for a teachers strike Monday morning

January 11, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Only the highly visible public drama of a District-wide strike will draw sufficient attention to the multiplicity of problems, many of them of a fiscal nature, that plague public education.