Teachers all across the nation have stepped out of the classrooms to protest higher wages so that they can take of their families and their students. Lily Eskelsen Garcia is the president of the National Education Association discusses with Russ Parr how proud she is of this movement. “This is about so much more than pay. […]
DENVER (AP) — The loudest rallying cries from Colorado teachers protesting for more education dollars were about dwindling paychecks that are steadily losing ground to the state’s rising cost of living. Teachers usually say a persistent funding shortage, which has cost public schools $6.6 billion since 2009, led them to walk off the job and […]
PHOENIX (AP) — A wave of red-clad teachers will crash upon the Arizona state Capitol on Thursday for an unprecedented job action that will close schools for a majority of the state’s public school students, part of an educator uprising that’s also bubbled up in Colorado. Around 30,000 to 50,000 teachers and their supporters are […]
PHOENIX (AP) — The public education uprisings that began in West Virginia and spread to Arizona, Oklahoma and Kentucky share similar origin stories. Teachers, long tired of low wages and a dearth of state funding, begin talking to each other online. Their Facebook groups draw tens of thousands of members. They share stories of their […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The state Capitol in Kentucky filled with teachers protesting pension changes and demanding generous school funding Monday, and thousands of Oklahoma educators walked out of classrooms in the latest evidence of teacher rebellion in some Republican-led states. Many Oklahoma schools were closed Monday, and districts announced plans to stay shut into […]
Is there a pattern of racist behavior in public school classrooms across America? I’m not an alarmist, nor an expert in polling, and even though this may be a small sampling, it’s still worth considering these critical facts: Last week, a white Florida teacher was suspended after an investigation revealed that David Swinyar used the […]
Recently there have been stories of teachers all across the U.S. acting completely out of line. David Suena a teacher in Jacksonville, Florida was suspended for 10 days without pay after he repeatedly used the n-word in his classroom to explain to students that they shouldn’t be dating African-American boys. It poses the question of […]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and Senate Republicans reached a tentative deal on Tuesday to end a nine-day statewide teachers’ strike by giving them 5 percent raises — and adding similar raises for all state workers while they’re at it. Justice said additional budget cuts by his staff will fund the […]
Do you know who’s teaching your kids? Like do you really know? Parents at one Florida school were shocked to find out that a history teacher was the host of a White Nationalist podcast where she bragged about teaching her views to students. Don’t Miss Out! Follow The Russ Parr Show on Twitter and Instagram Keep Up […]
Unions representing West Virginia teachers and service personnel say they will stay out on strike after the state Senate voted to cut the 5 percent pay raise they had negotiated with the governor. A joint legislative committee has been formed to address differences in the pay raise bills of the state Senate and House. In […]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Many West Virginia public school students were at loose ends again Friday, with their classrooms closed for a seventh straight class day as teachers fought for pay raises. The state Senate’s Republican majority refused Thursday to take up legislation to give them a 5 percent pay raise after four years without […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Police say they don’t know why a popular teacher allegedly fired a handgun inside his classroom, causing a chaotic lockdown and evacuation of his Georgia high school. But it immediately pierced the national debate over whether educators should be armed. As officers arrested Dalton High School social studies teacher Jesse Randal Davidson, […]
