Chicago Teachers Union Reaches Tentative Agreement, But Strike Not Over Yet!
The CTU reached a tentative agreement with Chicago Public Schools. The CTU House of Delegates voted 364-242 to suspend the strike pending resolution of final...
Month : October 2019
Alexandria Millet: The Charter School-to-Prison Pipeline
Alexandria Millet writes in The Progressive about the consequences of the harsh discipline at “no excuses” charter schools. She begins by telling the recent...
Africa: World Bank Ombudsman Expresses Concern about For-Profit Bridge International Academies
NAIROBI, 25TH OCTOBER 2019. The World Bank’s independent recourse and accountability mechanism, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO), published a report yesterday raising “substantial concerns” regarding Bridge International Academies (BIA) and announcing their...
Chicago: CTU Explains Terms of Tentative Agreement
Tentative Agreement Tonight’s Vote to Conditionally Suspend the Strike CTU’s House of Delegates met tonight to consider a new tentative agreement. The terms of the...
Pennsylvania: Speaker of the House Who Hates Public Schools and Teachers Will Have Electoral Challenge
Remember Pennsylvania Speaker of the House Mike Turzai, who denounced public schools as a “monopoly, and expressed his contempt for public school teachers as...
Nancy Bailey: The Haunted Third Grade Classroom That Traps Children
Nancy Bailey writes here about a zombie policy launched by Jeb Bush called third grade retention. Students who can’t pass a third grade reading test...
Chicago: Principals’ Association Says Teachers Are Not Demanding Enough
Troy Laraviere, president of the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association, writes in Crains Chicago Business that the Chicago Teachers Union is not demanding enough for...
Chicago Teachers Strike Ends! Weingarten Explains What Happened
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement in response to the news that the Chicago Teachers Union, AFT Local 1, reached a return-to-work agreement...
Carol Burris: Center for American Progress Scrambles to Save Charter Schools
Carol Burris notes that charter-friendly Democrats have been put in a jam since Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have announced their intention to eliminate federal...
NAEP 2019 Released: No Progress in Math, Reading
After a generation of disruptive reforms—No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, VAM and Common Core—after a decade or more of disinvestment in...