Teachers

History Teacher And Mumia Abu-Jamal Inspire Political Coming Of Age

April 11, 2016 Walidah Imarisha, www.truth-out.org Educate! History, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Teachers

By Walidah Imarisha for Truth Out - There were a total of seven Black people in my high school of over a thousand. Some, like Floyd with his skateboard cool and laid back attitude, hung out with the group of slackers, punks, metal heads, and weirdos I ran with. There was Angela, a star athlete. Her lean frame ate up the track like a prairie fire. Rather than feeling pride in her accomplishments, she made me feel even chunkier and clumsier than I was. Others, like Troy, were part of the Blacks and Browns, Black and Latino hip hop kids, classified by the school as a gang because they wore baggy jeans and hard faces, and because they chose not to associate too closely with white students.

Netflix Billionaire To Replace Teachers With Computers

March 5, 2016 Steven Rosenfeld, www.alternet.org Educate! Education, Netflix, Public schools, Teachers

By Steven Rosenfeld for AlterNet - When pondering the best way to transform and improve America’s K-12 public schools, do the ideas that first come to mind include: ditching locally elected school boards? Placing grade-school kids in overcrowded computer labs for hours at a time with unproven software and inexperienced teachers? Telling children from poor homes that test scores are the only results that matter? Or putting high-tech entrepreneurs who have financial stakes in the digital tools being road-tested on students on the private boards running those schools?

The REAL Silencing Of America’s Teachers!

February 22, 2016 Marla Kilfoyle, www.badassteachers.blogspot.com Educate! Education, Ohio, Teachers

By Marla Kilfoyle for The Badass Teachers Association - A new trend has appeared on the horizon – laws that silence teachers! In most states teachers are not allowed to engage in political activity while in school but what has appeared in the last few months, thanks to lawmakers in Ohio and Mississippi, is frightening. Two recent events disturbed me as an educator in America! Beware Teachers – silencing your voice is the just the tip of the iceberg. We have seen this growing trend that is attempting to silence teachers. Diane Ravitch reported as early as 2014 that New Mexico teachers had to sign a pledge not to say anything bad about the PARCC test. If a drug was bad for patients, would doctors be expected to sign a pledge not to say anything about that drug and its impact on his/her patients? The Silencing of America’s Teachers A scary trend in America! My colleagues - Will this wake us up?

Chicago Teachers Union Takes Over Downtown In Protest

February 5, 2016 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Chicago, Chicago Teachers Union, Education, Rahm Emanuel, Schools, Teachers

By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. he Chicago Teachers Union organized a mass protest of thousands of teachers, students, parents and residents of Chicago. They took over downtown Chicago for the day. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) describes the reasons for the protest writing: The march came two days after Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s handpicked Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Forrest Claypool declared war on public school educators by threatening $100 million in classroom cuts—roughly 1,000 layoffs—and just one day after the CTU withdrew nearly $1 million from Bank of America. Sarah Chambers, one of 16 people arrested for sitting in at Bank of America, said, "Rahm has money for the banks but not for our students, When it’s reached a point where teachers are occupying banks to make their voices heard, it shows that we need an elected school board.”

1942 Norwegian Teachers’ Nonviolent Resistance to Nazis

December 29, 2015 Rivera Sun, www.peacevoice.info Resist! Fascism, Protests, Teachers

By Rivera Sun for Peace Voice - With bigotry and hatred on the rise in the United States and politicians like Donald Trump giving everyone the nightmares of an American Hitler and Nazi Party, revisiting history offers us kernels of wisdom in resisting such extremism. In April 1940, the Nazis invaded Norway and occupied the country. In 1942, as part of an attempt to implement a fascist curriculum in the schools, Minister-President Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian collaborator, disbanded the existing teachers’ union and required all teachers to register with the new Norwegian Teachers’ Union by February 5. Between 8,000-10,000 of Norway’s 12,000 teachers responded by signing a letter of refusal to cooperate.

NYC Spent $1 Million To Fire OWS Teacher And Failed

December 28, 2015 Susan Edelman, www.nypost.com Resist! New York (NY), New York City (NYC), NYC, Occupy Wall Street, Teachers

By Susan Edelman for New York Post - The city has lost a four-year, $1 million battle to fire a teacher arrested in the Occupy Wall Street protests. David Suker, a US Army veteran who taught at-risk youths in The Bronx for 14 years, was removed from the classroom in December 2011. He was charged with riling up students during an NYPD presentation at a school town-hall meeting by complaining he had been roughed up by cops, showing a scar on his head, and exchanging high-fives and fist bumps with teens. Suker was also charged with failing to immediately report one of his five Occupy Wall Street arrests in Washington Square Park on Nov. 2. He notified the Department of Education three days after getting out of jail.

96.5% Of Chicago Teachers Vote To Strike

December 15, 2015 CTU Communications, www.ctunet.com Resist! Chicago, Education, Teacher's Union, Teachers

By CTU Communications for Chicago Teachers Union - “Late last week teachers, PSRPs, clinicians—members of the CTU—voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. The actual result was just over 96 percent of those voting marked ‘yes’ with a 92 percent turnout. Rahm, Forrest Claypool—listen to what teachers and educators are trying to tell you: do not cut the schools anymore, do not make the layoffs that you have threatened; instead, respect educators and give us the tools we need to do our jobs. In particular: Improve the teaching and learning conditions by reducing standardized testing, eliminate time-sucking compliance paperwork, and restore professional respect and autonomy to teachers on matters like grades. These improvements cost nothing...

Seattle Educators Unanimously Vote To Strike Sept. 9

September 10, 2015 Seattle Education Association, www.seattlewea.org Resist! Education, Teachers, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Seattle Education Association - By an unprecedented thunderous unanimous vote, Seattle educators have voted to strike beginning the first day of school, Sept. 9, if the Seattle School Board fails to negotiate a tentative contract agreement before then. “The Seattle School Board has rejected most of our proposals around competitive pay, reasonable testing, guaranteed recess, student equity and workloads,” said Phyllis Campano, a special education teacher who serves as Seattle Education Association vice president and bargaining chair. “Through their inaction, their lack of serious proposals and their refusal to publicly explain their positions, Seattle School Board members have shown they neither respect nor value us as professional educators.”

Not Just For Better Pay: Seattle Teachers Strike For Social Justice

September 5, 2015 Interview of Jesse Hagopian with Jaisal Noor, www.therealnews.com Resist! Education, Labor Unions, Seattle, Social Justice, Teachers, Worker Rights and Jobs

Interview of Jesse Hagopian with Jaisal Noor - This means students will not be attending class on Wednesday, the first scheduled day of school, if a deal is not reached before then. Negotiations with the school district are ongoing. The key issues of contention between Seattle Public Schools and the union include teacher pay, recess time for students, extending the school day, and what the union is calling too much standardized testing. The district services over 45,000 students in 97 schools. Well, now joining us to discuss this from Seattle is Jesse Hagopian. Jesse is a Seattle public school teacher. He's an editor of Rethinking Schools magazine, a founding member of Social Equality Educators. He's the editor of the book More Than a Score, and he blogs at IAmanEducator.com. Thanks so much for joining us, Jesse.

EduShyster: You’re Fired!

August 18, 2015 Jennifer C. Berkshire, www.nepc.colorado.edu Educate! Education, Teachers

By Jennifer C. Berkshire in National Education Policy Center - So who were the teachers who were shown the door on the very last day of school? Well, almost all of them can be found on pro-union flier above. Several were among the most senior teachers at Urban Prep; 80% were African American, in a network where teachers are overwhelmingly white. Some teachers were given no reason for their sudden termination. Then there is Mathias Muschal, chair of the English Department, who helped to found Urban Prep’s newest campus in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. He was fired for holding a pizza party for the track and field team he coaches. *The official reason was insubordination. I was told that the party was indicative of my disdain for leadership and an act of aggression because I failed to notify the administration about it ahead of time,* Muschal told me.

Brazil Teacher Strike In Sao Paulo State Ends

June 16, 2015 BBC News, www.facebook.com Resist! Brazil, Education, Labor Unions, Teachers, Worker Rights and Jobs

By BBC News - Thousands of protesters from one of the largest teachers' unions in the Americas met in the centre of Sao Paulo to cast their vote. It began after the state government failed to offer a salary increase. A union leader said the strike had lost force when strike payments had had to be reduced. The strikers of the Union of Official Teachers for the State of Sao Paulo (Apeoesp), had been calling for a 75% pay rise. The union represents about 180,000 teachers. Last year, in the lead up to the World Cup in Brazil, thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities across Brazil to demonstrate against the spiralling costs linked to the building of the football stadiums, and corruption. Many protesters complained money was being cut from basic public services.

30,000 Teachers Walk Out In Protest Of Big Class Sizes

June 6, 2015 Mario Vasquez, www.inthesetimes.com Resist! Education, Seattle, Teachers, Washington

By Mario Vasquez in In These Times - On Tuesday, May 19, thousands of demonstrators marched through downtown Seattle to support a rolling strike by public school teachers across Washington state. The teachers are protesting what they say are unacceptably high class sizes and low pay, stemming from their state legislature’s failure to fully fund public education. Six thousand teachers and supporters from Seattle Public Schools and the nearby districts of Mercer Island and Issaquah shut down intersections for blocks in the largest coordinated action since the rolling walkout began on April 22. In total, at least 30,000 teachers in 65 striking school districts have participated in one-day strikes.

Lifting The Veil Of Silence On Standardized Testing

April 21, 2015 Steven Singer, www.badassteachers.blogspot.com Educate! Education, Student Activism, Teachers, Testing

So the first act of testing is a threat of legal consequences and possible fines. There are no such warnings on my own teacher-created tests. Sure I don’t want students to cheat, but I don’t threaten to take them to court if they do. The school has a plagiarism policy in place – as just almost every public school does – which was created and approved by the local school board and administration. The first infraction merits a warning. The second one results in a zero on the assignment, and so on. Moreover, this is something we go over once at the beginning of the year. We do not reiterate it with every test. It would be counterproductive to remind students of the dire consequences of misbehavior right before you’re asking them to perform at their peak ability.

One-Quarter Of Adjunct Prof Families Receive Public Assistance

April 15, 2015 Jordan Weissman, www.slate.com Educate! Adjunct, Government, Teachers

Once in a while, someone publishes an article about adjunct professors who resort to food stamps in order to survive on the rock-bottom pay that so many college instructors are expected to live on. But until today, I had never seen a statistic summing up how many academics are actually resorting to government aid. The number, it turns out, is rather large. According to an analysis of census data by the University of California–Berkeley's Center for Labor Research and Education, 25 percent of "part-time college faculty" and their families now receive some sort public assistance, such as Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, food stamps, cash welfare, or the Earned Income Tax Credit. For what it's worth, that's not quite so bad as the situation faced by fast-food employees and home health care aids, roughly half of whom get government help.

Adjuncts Join The Fight For 15

April 8, 2015 Colleen Flaherty, www.insidehighered.com Resist! Higher Education, Labor Unions, Teachers, Worker Rights and Jobs

Most observers agree that adjunct instructors deserve better pay, but what about $15,000 per course? The Service Employees International Union shocked even some adjunct activists last week when it announced that figure as a centerpiece of its new faculty advocacy campaign. But while union leaders admit the number is bold, those involved in the campaign say adjuncts might as well aim big, since they have little to lose. They also say they hope the $15,000 figure will force a national conversation about just how colleges spend their money, if not on middle-class salaries for instructors. “Clearly this is an aspirational goal, but it’s a realistic goal, as well,” said Tiffany Kraft, an adjunct instructor of English at four different institutions in the Portland, Ore., area, where she earns $2,700 to $3,400 per course -- about average, nationwide.

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