Public schools

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.

As Immigrant Youth Come Under Attack, Schools Try To Protect Them

November 26, 2025 Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout. Create! Education, ICE, Immigrants, Public schools, Sanctuary

In Sanctuary School: Innovating to Empower Immigrant Youth, Molloy University assistant professor of education Chandler Patton Miranda presents an in-depth and emotionally resonant look at a network of 31 small public high schools in seven states that provide “radical welcome, protection and empowerment” to migrant youth from 119 countries. The Internationals Network for Public Schools was initially founded in 2004 in Queens, New York, but it now has expanded to serve schools in California, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., among other locations.

Michigan Coalition Puts Billionaires On Notice

November 20, 2025 Drew Younker, People's World. Strategize! Billionaires, Education, Michigan, Public schools, Taxes

Lansing, Michigan - Corporate-backed lawyers descended on the state capital in late June in a frantic attempt to derail a popular ballot initiative that would tax the wealthiest Michiganders to fund the state’s starving public schools. The Invest in MI Kids campaign (with the MI pronounced like “my”), an evolution of the “Babies over Billionaires” movement, arrived at a Board of State Canvassers meeting to get its 100-word petition summary approved. The measure would levy a 5% tax on annual income over $500,000 for individuals and $1,000,000 for couples, directing the revenue exclusively to the State School Aid Fund.

Ground Zero In Conservative Quest For Patriotic And Christian Public Schools

October 26, 2025 Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica. Educate! Christian Nationalism, Education, Oklahoma, Public schools, Trump Administration

The future that the Trump administration envisions for public schools is more patriotic, more Christian and less “woke.” Want to know how that might play out? Look to Oklahoma. Oklahoma has spent the past few years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride about America’s history, with political leaders and legislators working their way through the conservative agenda for overhauling education. Academics, educators and critics alike refer to Oklahoma as ground zero for pushing education to the right. Or, as one teacher put it, “the canary on the prairie.” By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America First” agenda, which includes the expansion of private school vouchers and prohibitions on lessons about race and sex, Oklahoma had been there, done that.

This School Season, Teachers And Parents Are Fighting Back Against ICE

September 14, 2025 Mike Ludwig, Truthout. Strategize! ICE, Immigrant Rights, Public schools, Sanctuary Schools

When Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a 38-year-old chiropractor while he was dropping his daughter off, they reportedly smashed out the windows of his car. The arrest, which happened on July 15, took place outside the child’s preschool in South Beaverton, Oregon. The father, originally from Iran, is married to a U.S. citizen who said he has applied for a green card to remain in the United States legally, according to Oregon Public Media. Randy Kornfield, who witnessed the arrest while taking his grandson to the same school, told a reporter it was “heartless” to arrest a father dropping his kid off. ICE said in a statement that the child was “unharmed.” “These poor kids don’t know what’s going on,” Kornfield said at the time.

CTU Hosts ‘Billionaire Bake Sale’ At School Board Meeting

July 29, 2025 Kobi Guillory, Fight Back! News. Resist! Chicago, Chicago Teachers Union, Public schools, Teachers, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Chicago, IL – A crowd of Chicago Teachers Union members attended the school board meeting, July 24, carrying giant cardboard cupcakes with price tags representing the net worth of Illinois billionaires. Their demands are for Governor JB Pritzker to call a special legislative session and secure more funding for public education and other services, and for higher taxes on the rich to counteract the effects of Trump's “Big, Beautiful Bill.” “The top 5% of top earners in Illinois got $7.7 billion in tax cuts from the Big Horrible Bill,” Jackson Potter, the CTU vice president, explaining that these tax cuts are happening while public education, healthcare and transportation each face hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts.

Lobby Fumes As US Teachers Drop Zionist Curriculum

July 18, 2025 Marcy Winograd, Consortium News. Educate! ADL, Education, Palestine, Public schools, Unions

National Education Association teachers in support of Palestinian rights are celebrating their breakthrough success at the NEA’s Representative Assembly in Portland this summer. After years of organizing with both one-on-one conversations and state delegation talks, NEA delegates voted to pass a Drop the Anti-Defamation League motion that rejects the ADL as a curriculum and professional development partner. “We are witnessing a sea change in people’s understanding of who the Palestinians are and what colonialism has done to them,“ said Merrie Najimy, former president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) and Founder of MTA Rank and File for Palestine.

The National Education Association Voted To Cut All Ties To The ADL

July 8, 2025 Emmaia Gelman, Mondoweiss. Resist! ADL, Education, NEA, Public schools, Unions

In a momentous vote, the National Education Association’s 7,000-member policymaking body cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League. On July 6, the NEA’s national Representative Assembly approved New Business Item 39, committing that the NEA “will not use, endorse, or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), such as its curricular materials or statistics.” The reasoning: “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be.” The ADL has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for nearly forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universities – often over the objections of students, parents, and educators.

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