Public schools

Chicagoans Reject Over 1,000 School Layoffs

August 3, 2026 Hayden Kersting, Fight Back! News. Resist! Austerity, Chicago, Education, Public schools, Worker Rights and Jobs

Chicago, IL – On Thursday morning, July 30, the Chicago Board of Education passed an amended budget to avoid over 1000 layoffs of workers in Chicago Public Schools (CPS). The revised budget counts on the state of Illinois to allocate an additional $150 million to CPS for the 2026-2027 school year. The amount is a fraction of the funding Illinois committed to provide to school districts under the Evidence-Based Funding (EBF) for Student Success Act, passed back in 2017. Unions, community organizations and other stakeholders are pressuring the general assembly and Governor J.B. Pritzker to follow through on these commitments.

Education Crisis A Major Malfunction In The Engine Of Democracy

July 27, 2026 Mary Rose Quinn and Michael O'Dea, People's World. Educate! Democracy, Education, Houston, Literacy, Public schools, Texas

Houston, Texas — While students, parents, teachers, and school staff enjoy what remains of their summer, the nation’s literacy crisis continues to loom overhead. The results of three decades of educational “reform” reveal a dangerous backslide in education that has coincided with the broader backslide in democracy. Among the many factors identified as contributing to the education crisis are an overemphasis on standardized testing, remote learning that took off during the COVID-19 pandemic, the elimination of free reading time in schools, declining rates of reading for pleasure among both children and adults, the rise of digital technologies that compete for attention, and growing economic inequality.

Emergency Loans Are Costing US Schools Millions

June 20, 2026 Michael Beyea Reagan and Jason Wozniak, Truthout. Educate! Debt, Public schools, State budgets, Wall Street

In school districts from Pennsylvania to Illinois, Kentucky to West Virginia, state and local budget delays are putting the pinch on classrooms and costing districts tens of millions of dollars in additional borrowing fees — money going straight to Wall Street. In effect, political failures like budget delays, faulty tax software programs, or just political impasses are forcing some of the poorest school districts to borrow money unnecessarily. It is a massive transfer of wealth out of our local classrooms directly to the richest banks and individuals in the nation.

This School District Received Death Threats For Standing Up For Immigrants

June 11, 2026 Ariel Gilreath, Portside. Resist! ICE, Immigrant Rights, Public schools, Sanctuary, Vermont

Winooski, VT - The day’s class started with a writing prompt: Do you feel safe in school? Why or why not? The students — whose families hail from across the globe and speak languages including Arabic, Nepali, Spanish and Somali — wrote their responses before reading them aloud. “I feel safe in school because I saw the school doors are locked every time,” one student said, “and I heard ICE is not here.” “If ICE comes to school, they are not allowed to go in,” said another. “ICE can’t come in,” said a third teen. The sense of security students feel in this multilingual learner class at Winooski High School is hard-won.

How A Legal Group’s Anti-LGBTQ Policies Took Root In School Districts

May 13, 2026 Kathryn Joyce, In These Times. Strategize! Conservatives, LGBTQ Rights, Pennsylvania, Public schools

The West Shore school board policy committee meeting came to a halt almost as soon as it began. As a board member started going over the agenda on July 17, 2025, local parent Danielle Gross rose to object to a last-minute addition she said hadn’t been on the district’s website the day before. By posting notice of the proposal so close to the meeting, charged Gross, who is also a partner at a communications and advocacy firm that works on state education policy, the board had violated Pennsylvania’s open meetings law.

Rank-And-File Educators Challenge Police Presence In Public Schools

May 12, 2026 Fight Back! News. Organize! Education, New York City (NYC), Police, Public schools, Teachers

New York, NY – On Wednesday, May 6, the Movement of Rank and File Educators gathered for general assembly in Midtown Manhattan. More than 40 classroom teachers from across the city met to discuss the presence of NYPD in schools and the police’s role in oppressing the student body of New York and intimidating teachers and staff in schools. The group was joined by the Dignity in Schools organization, which is against scanners and police in schools. The meeting began with a teach-in on the history of policing in schools in NYC, which first began in the 1970s after the United Federation of Teachers made a mistake by striking against Black and Puerto Rican parents who wanted to exercise control over their children’s schools.

Last-Minute Tentative Agreements Avert Big L.A. School Strike

April 17, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. Resist! Education, Los Angeles, Public schools, Strikes, Teachers, Unions

Los Angeles — Last-minute tentative agreements, reached at 3 a.m. on April 13—two days before a scheduled strike was to start—averted the walkout by the three unions representing 37,000 teachers and support staffers of the Los Angeles United School District (LAUSD), one of the largest districts in the U.S. One key to the agreements, covering the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA), a Teachers/AFT local, Teamsters Local 2010, and Service Employees Local 99, was widespread labor, community, and political support for the workers, who sought substantial raises that would enable them to continue to live and work in L.A.

Sheridan Educators On Strike After Negotiations Fall Flat

April 6, 2026 Thomas Chaney, Fight Back! News. Resist! Colorado, Public schools, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Englewood, CO – On April 1, teachers and faculty across five schools of the Sheridan School District went on strike demanding union recognition and the reinstatement of their contract. Over 100 teachers, faculty and community members walked the picket lines demanding that the school district come back to the table for negotiations. Tensions rose earlier this year when the school district passed a policy that stated they would not recognize staff without licenses in the union. That means school custodians, paraprofessionals on staff, bus drivers – workers who all keep the district’s schools running and operational – were not able to join. When contract negotiations fell apart, 98% of members voted to strike.

Overwhelmed By Strike, San Francisco Schools Found Money For Top Demands

April 1, 2026 Danielle Smith, Labor Notes. Resist! Public schools, San Francisco, Strikes, Teachers, Unions

Six thousand San Francisco educators won fully funded health care, sanctuary schools, and an up to 8.5 percent raise over two years by walking out for the first time in nearly 50 years. After just four days on strike, February 9 to 12, they won their top demands—some of which the district had previously refused even to bargain over. “It was hard and it was joyful and we f-ing beat them,” said Ilan Desai-Geller, a high school teacher who served on the bargaining committee and as a regional strike captain. “They found the money all of a sudden. “They found the money for the things they said they couldn’t. They agreed to the language they said they couldn’t.”

Unions, Residents Condemn Mass School Closures And Education Cuts

April 1, 2026 Emma Glazer, People's World. Resist! Austerity, Education, Philadelphia, Public schools

Philadelphia—Outside the February Monthly Action Meeting of the Philadelphia School Board, unions representing Philadelphia School District employees rallied in opposition to a proposed plan that would see more than a dozen school closures. Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT3), Unite Here Local 634, Teamsters Local 502 (CASA), SEIU 32 BJ, and School Police Association of Philadelphia (SPAP) outside of the meeting condemned the 10-year Facilities Master Plan (FMP) presented by Superintendent Dr. Tony Watlington Sr. The previous iterations of the proposal presented a closure of 20 schools.

When We Fight For Public Schools, We Fight For Democracy

March 20, 2026 Kumar Rao, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Education, Non-permission Slip, Privatization, Public schools

Every morning, across the nation, in red states and blue states, in urban and rural communities, we watch children walk through the doors of our neighborhood public schools, backpacks slung over one shoulder, lunch bags in hand. These are ordinary moments that contain an extraordinary promise: that education belongs to every child. But that promise — simple, powerful and profoundly democratic — is now under attack in ways we haven’t seen in generations. Asked what percentage of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward, Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice — now with Project 2025 architect, the Heritage Foundation — told ProPublica: “I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

San Francisco Teachers Begin First Strike In Nearly 50 Years

February 11, 2026 The Guardian. Resist! Public schools, San Francisco, Strikes, Teachers, Worker Rights

About 6,000 public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday, the first public schoolteachers strike in the city in nearly 50 years. The strike comes after teachers and the district failed to reach an agreement over higher wages, health benefits and more resources for special needs students. The San Francisco Unified School District closed all its 120 schools and said it would offer independent study to some of the district’s 50,000 students. “We will continue to stand together until we win the schools our students deserve and the contracts our members deserve,” Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, said at a Monday morning news conference.

San Francisco Educators Prepare Strike As Vacancy Crisis Deepens

February 7, 2026 Cameron Harrison, People's World. Resist! Education, Public schools, San Francisco, Strikes, Teachers, Worker Rights

San Francisco — In a resounding strike mandate, over 5,200 members of the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) have voted 97.6% to authorize a strike on Jan. 9, setting the stage for the city’s first teachers’ walkout since 1979. That is, unless the school district addresses a severe vacancy and turnover crisis. The union announced the overwhelming mandate on Jan. 5 at a press conference as educators gathered for strike preparation. They cited the San Francisco Unified School District’s (SFUSD) failure to prioritize classroom stability, fully funded healthcare, and critical support for special education students as the primary reason for the strike.

Milwaukee: Students Win Restrictions On Cops In Schools

January 24, 2026 Casey Serrano, Fight Back! News. Resist! Milwaukee, Police, Public schools, Student Activism

Milwaukee WI – On January 20, Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) students organized with Youth Empowered In the Struggle (YES!) won their campaign for the School Board to pass a resolution that would provide additional transparency and accountability for the School Resource Officers (SROs) that have returned to MPS this year. The new resolution includes several restrictions on SROs’ power including strictly limiting when SROs can get involved with disruptive behavior, giving school staff final say over discipline in schools, barring strip searches, barring use of force and arrest in almost all cases, and mandating clear quarterly reporting about what SROs are doing in MPS.

ICE Raids Turn Schools Into Battlegrounds To Defend Students

December 3, 2025 Barbara Madeloni, Labor Notes. Organize! Chicago, Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Public schools

Educator Carolyn Brown was meeting with school counselors when she got the call: ICE agents were out front. By the time she got out of the building, ICE had abducted a woman and her 17-year-old daughter, an American citizen. Brown, a coordinator of the International Baccalaureate program at Thomas Kelly College Prep, is also part of the rapid-response team for the school, in a Mexican enclave in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. The ICE agents were gone, for the moment. But in the stores across the street, people were too frightened to venture out.

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