Teachers

Billionaires Vs. LA Schools

January 17, 2019 Eric Blanc, Jacobinmag.com Educate! Class Struggle, Education, Los Angeles, Ruling Class, Strikes, Teachers

Unlike many labor actions, the Los Angeles teachers’ strike is not really about wages or benefits. At its core, this is a struggle to defend public schools against the privatizing drive of a small-but-powerful group of billionaires. The plan of these business leaders is simple: break-up the school district into thirty-two competing “portfolio” networks, in order to replace public schools with privately run charters. As firm believers in the dogmas of market fundamentalism, these influential downsizers truly believe that it’s possible to improve education by running it like a private business.

LA Teachers Strike Shows There Is Little Difference Between Dems & Repubs On Corporatized Education

January 16, 2019 Steven Singer, Gadflyonthewallblog.com Resist! Education, Electoral Politics, Los Angeles, Reform, Strikes, Teachers

On Monday more than 30,000 teachers at 900 schools in Los Angeles, California, will be on strike. And unlike the wave of teachers strikes last year in red states like West Virginia, this time educators are taking to the streets due to the policies of Democrats. At issue are things like lowering class sizes and providing more nurses, librarians and counselors. But behind these issues lies one of the most important facts about our country. When you get right down to it, there is very little difference between many Democratic policymakers and their Republican counterparts.

Los Angeles Teachers Strike To Defend Public Schools From The Privatizers

January 15, 2019 Barbara Madeloni, Labornotes.org Organize! Class Struggle, Education, Los Angeles, Privatization, Strikes, Teachers

Last spring a teacher uprising swept the red states. Today it reached the West Coast, as the 34,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles began a long-anticipated strike in the nation’s second-largest school district. Teachers, parents, students, and community supporters hit the picket lines in their fight against the budget cuts and privatization being pushed by the school board and Superintendent Austin Beutner, a former investment banker. In November the L.A. Times and Capital & Main leaked the outline of Beutner’s plan to carve up the district into clusters of schools run like competing stock portfolios. Any school judged to be an underperformer would be sold off like a weak stock.

Los Angeles Teachers Strike In Second Largest School District In US

January 15, 2019 David Brown, Wsws.org Resist! Education, Los Angeles, Strikes, Teachers

More than 33,000 teachers in Los Angeles, California went on strike Monday morning, setting up picket lines at more than 1,200 public schools in the second largest school district in the US. Teachers are demanding higher wages, smaller class sizes and more support staff. The walkout is the largest struggle by educators since the wave of statewide strikes in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Arizona from March to May in 2018. Unlike those previous strikes, where teachers were largely confronting Republican-controlled state governments, Los Angeles teachers are in a direct battle with the Democratic Party, which controls every lever of government in Los Angeles and California.

US: 31,000 Strong LA Teachers’ Union To Strike Next Week

January 12, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Class Struggle, Los Angeles, Strikes, Teacher's Union, Teachers, Unions

A union representing over 30,000 teachers in Los Angeles, California has threatened a massive walkout to demand higher salaries, smaller class sizes, and a moratorium on new charter schools. The strike is expected to take place Monday. United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) had warned they would strike in the city's 900 public schools Thursday if an agreement was not reached before then. On Wednesday, however, the teacher’ union delayed the walk-out after officials with the Los Angeles Unified School District said they had not been given a legally required 10-day notice of the labor action. A judge refused to rule on the issue Wednesday, saying that the LAUSD's court papers had been incorrectly filed.

Nation’s Top Teachers Will Hold ‘Teach In’ at Child Detention Camp

January 11, 2019 By Madeline Will, Portside.org Organize! Class Struggle, Education, Immigrants, Immigration, Teachers, Undocumented

In February, educators will gather outside a massive detention camp for migrant children and stage a 24-hour "teach in." The upcoming protest at the Tornillo, Texas detention camp is organized by Mandy Manning, the 2018 National Teacher of the Year, who teaches newly arrived refugee and immigrant students in Washington state. When she met President Donald Trump at the White House in a May ceremony, Manning gave him a stack of letters from her immigrant students. (She also wore buttons supporting women's rights, LGBTQ rights, and other political causes in a silent rebuke.)

LA Teachers’ Strike: Dispatch #1

January 9, 2019 Glenn Sacks, Counterpunch.org Resist! Class Struggle, Education, Labor, Los Angeles, Strikes, Teachers

Absent a dramatic change in the Los Angeles Unified School District’s bargaining position, over 30,000 Los Angeles teachers will strike on Thursday, January 10. With nearly half a million students at over 1,000 schools, LAUSD is America’s second largest school district. LAUSD and United Teachers of Los Angeles have been negotiating since April, 2017 and are still far apart, and teachers have been working without a contract for 18 months. California’s Public Employment Relations Board issued its factfinding report in mid-December—the last step before UTLA could legally strike—and the neutral factfinder affirmed many key UTLA positions. On December 15 over 50,000 parents, students, and teachers rallied in downtown LA in support of UTLA.

Teachers Strikes Expected In 2019

December 31, 2018 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Class Struggle, Education, Strikes, Teachers

Teachers in the U.S. are getting ready for a combative 2019, as strikes have been organized to protest the same old educational issues. The new year promises new teacher strikes in the United States (U.S.), as teachers are already preparing for more struggles for better working conditions. In the United States, 2018 was marked by teacher strikes. The number of educators walking out of classrooms to demand better salary conditions, smaller class sizes and the increment of founding, has never been seen before. In many U.S. states the 2018 teachers strikes resulted in progressive achievements.

If LA Teachers Strike Don’t Expect It To Stay In LA

December 30, 2018 By Ricardo Cano, CalMatters Resist! Strike, Teachers

The nation’s second largest school district is about to ring in 2019 with a teacher strike that is already reverberating in public schools across California, and could be felt by taxpayers and communities throughout the state. United Teachers Los Angeles, which represents more than 30,000 teachers and employees in the Los Angeles Unified School District, says it will strike Jan. 10—the first Thursday after students return from the holiday break—unless the district agrees to a wide-ranging list of demands on pay, support resources and working conditions.

A Texas Elementary School Speech Pathologist Refused To Sign A Pro-Israel Oath, Now Mandatory In Many States — So She Lost Her Job

December 18, 2018 By Glenn Greenwald, Theintercept.com Educate! Education, Israel, Palestine, Repression, Teachers

A CHILDREN’S SPEECH PATHOLOGIST who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school students in Austin, Texas, has been told that she can no longer work with the public school district, after she refused to sign an oath vowing that she “does not” and “will not” engage in a boycott of Israel or “otherwise tak[e] any action that is intended to inflict economic harm” on that foreign nation. A lawsuit on her behalf was filed early Monday morning in a federal court in the Western District of Texas, alleging a violation of her First Amendment right of free speech.

Chicago Teachers Win First Charter Strike In History

December 17, 2018 By Barbara Madeloni, Portside.org Resist! Charter Schools, Chicago, Strikes, Teachers

In a charter network where 90 percent of the students are Latino, strikers won an agreement to designate all its schools as “sanctuary schools,” off-limits to immigration police. This article, originally published on December 4 as the strike began, has since been updated. --Editors. Chicago teachers are leading the way again. They have declared victory in the first charter school strike in U.S. history. The four-day strike included 550 teachers and paraprofessionals who work at all 15 Chicago charter schools in the Acero charter chain. It ended December 9 with an agreement that includes smaller class sizes and salary increases that will align charter teachers with their counterparts in the Chicago Public Schools.

First Charter School Strike In Nation Eyes Day 2 As Acero Teachers Walk Out

December 5, 2018 By Manny Ramos, Alice Yin, and Lauren FitzPatrick, Chicago.suntimes.com Resist! Charter Schools, Education, Strikes, Teachers

The historic Acero charter-schools strike is set to enter its second day Wednesday as teachers plan to hit picket lines at Acero’s campuses by 6:30 a.m., the teachers union said late Tuesday. Then the Chicago Teachers Union will hold a rally at 10 a.m. just before the Chicago Board of Education’s monthly meeting at 42 W. Madison St. Union President Jesse Sharkey plans to discuss the strike during the Chicago Public Schools board meeting at 10:30 a.m., according to a statement released by CTU on Tuesday night. Picket lines stretched two-and-a-half blocks around Acero’s downtown Chicago headquarters at 209 W Jackson Blvd. on Tuesday afternoon as the nation’s first-ever strike by charter school educators canceled classes for thousands of students.

Why I’m Standing With LA Teachers

November 28, 2018 By Roxana Tynan, Medium.com Strategize! Education, Los Angeles, Teachers

2018 has been a pivotal year for teachers. In West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky, Colorado, and North Carolina, teachers walked out of their classrooms and into the streets, demanding their grievances be addressed. This fall, fifteen school districts across Washington state started the school year on strike. Here in Los Angeles, the teachers’ union is engaged in tense negotiations and teachers have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike if no resolution is reached. We’re finally having a national conversation about the value of educators — and public opinion is on the teachers’ side. According to recent polling, 78% of Americans would support teachers who go on strike over pay issues.

In The Pacific Northwest, The First Paraeducator-Led Strike Of The Teacher Uprising

November 20, 2018 Dan DiMaggio, Labornotes.org Resist! Class Struggle, Education, Strikes, Teachers

Paraeducators in Port Angeles, Washington, are on strike. In this year’s wave of teacher strikes, it’s the first one led by paraeducators. Teachers have refused to cross their picket lines, shutting down the district’s schools Thursday and Friday. The 115 paradeucators in this small coastal city, just across the water from Canada, assist with everything from reading lessons to recess. Paraeducators play an essential role in today’s schools, offering extra attention and care to students who need it—especially those with disabilities. Besides solidarity, another reason teachers were reluctant to cross the paras’ picket lines was “a lot of safety concerns,” said Eric Pickens, president of the Port Angeles Education Association. “They’re trained to help out our most fragile students, students with special needs.”

“Nicaragua Is A Victim Of Double Political Standards”

November 6, 2018 Staff, Investigaction.net Educate! Class Struggle, Latin America, Nicaragua, Teachers, Unions

Julie Lamin is a committed secondary school teacher in the UK and an author. During the summer holidays of 2017, as part of a teacher delegation organised by her trade union NEU (NUT Section), she travelled to Nicaragua at the invitation of the ‘Nicaraguan teachers’ union, ANDEN and the Ministry of Education. Their purpose was to support Nicaraguan teachers in developing the curriculum of English as a second language. Experiencing first-hand the ‘huge progress’ Nicaragua was making in the lives of young people and their families in terms of education, health and well-being in one of the safest countries in Latin America, Julie was shocked and hurt to hear of the violence that began to disrupt the country only nine months later.

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