teachers
Florida gov. vetoes anti-teacher bill
April 19, 2010After massive protests by teachers, parents and other public school advocates, Florida's Republican Gov. Charlie Crist defied members of his own party by vetoing legislation that would have eliminated tenure for teachers and gutted community-based input...
Read moreChicago students walk out to protest education cuts
April 9, 2010More than 500 high school students walked out of classrooms at public schools city wide to massive education budget cuts.
Read moreNew Chicago trend: charter school teachers unionize
March 25, 2010One hundred teachers at four Chicago charter schools filed for union recognition March 19, joining 123 others who won their first contract last year.
Read moreA teacher speaks her mind
March 23, 2010I would hate to think that all of my effort could be cast aside because some standardized test or other incomplete measurement suggested that I was not doing a good job.
Read moreObama school plan has pluses but big minuses, teachers and others warn
March 17, 2010The administration's education "blueprint" discards some of the No Child Left Behind law's much-criticized features, but keeps or adds others that teachers, their unions and other public school advocates oppose.
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