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Rolling one-day strike closes Washington state schools

May 19, 2015 By Tim Wheeler

Thousands of union school workers in 60 districts across Washington are staging a "rolling one-day walkout" to protest the Republican-controlled State Senate's refusal to fully fund public schools.

Anti-union groups target California teachers

May 18, 2015 By Michelle Kern

Pro-corporate education anti-union groups have taken aim at California teachers unions with two separate lawsuits.

Teacher Appreciation Week in Chicago: a cut in pay?

May 6, 2015 By Harold Wallace

Teacher Appreciation Week had barely begun when news broke that teachers had to take a seven percent pay cut.

Teachers union leaders split as panel starts rewriting education law

April 17, 2015 By PAI

Leaders of the nation's two large teachers' unions are split on a bipartisan effort by a key Senate committee to rewrite the federal aid-to-education law.

Gutting teacher tenure hurts the children

April 10, 2015 By Toni Smith Thompson

Public education is under attack. Our children are labeled failures and teachers are criticized as lazy, ineffective, and overpaid.