Tag: Teachers
Los Angeles Teachers Prepare to Strike: An Organizing Drive Long in the Making
LA teachers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, should contract negotiations fail. Each side accusing the other of illegal tactics. However, teachers say this is…
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights partners with Discovery Education to launch new education program
Khalilah Harris and Kerry Kennedy discuss RFK Human Rights’ launch of the Speak Truth To Power education initiative; engaging young people in schools to be…
The Role of Maryland HBCU’s in Advancing Equity
Join us for a live panel discussion about the opportunities and challenges facing Maryland HBCUs as we move into the future economy. Hosted by TRNN’s…
As Far Right Marches in London, UK Teachers Organize Against Racism
Educators gathered in Leeds to share strategies on how to combat growing racism, xenophobia and and Islamophobia across the UK. Music: Bensounds.com ** (Disclaimer: This…
Is 2019 the Year Maryland Finally Fully Funds its Public Schools?
A major battle is brewing between Maryland’s Democratic leadership, its Republican Governor and education advocates over the future of the state’s public schools ** (Disclaimer:…
‘Victory’ Deal Reached to End First Denver Teachers Strike in 25 Years
Journalist Eric Blanc discusses the tentative agreement to end the Denver teachers strike Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by donating…
Hundreds of Teachers Protest Budget Cuts
Hundreds of teachers in Baltimore County packed a Board of Education meeting urging the full funding of public schools Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and…
Students, Residents Protest Johns Hopkins ICE Contracts and Private Police
As student occupation continues, professors join in calls for the university to abandon plan for armed police Subscribe to our page and support our work…
200,000 Canadian Teachers Strike to Defend Public Education
Ontario teachers have joined the front lines in the worldwide battle against austerity. Public school workers organized rolling strikes against the conservative provincial government’s budget…
COVID-19 Is Amplifying Racial Inequities, Educators Say
Baltimore Teachers Union President Diamonté Brown discusses a recent lawsuit over unpaid instructional days, global protests against racism, the movement to defund the police, and…
Ten years after Act 10, Wisconsin teachers are still fighting to rebuild from the rubble
Under Republican Gov. Scott Walker Wisconsin became a “right to work” state, and public sector unions were gutted with the passage of Act 10 in…
70,000 UK higher ed faculty strike across 150 universities
Britain’s higher education union, the UCU, has called multiple days of strike action for fair wages and work conditions, joining millions of workers picketing across…
‘You’re going to see more books get banned’: The war on schools in Ron Desantis’s Florida
Read the transcript and shownotes for this podcast: https://therealnews.com/youre-going-to-see-more-books-get-banned-floridas-war-on-public-schools Things are getting very dark in Florida, and educators at all levels have found themselves on…
Why Don’t Teachers Have Bodycams?
#cops #teachers The public and politicians DEMAND that cops are accountable on camera for every moment they work. Why do we not expect the same…
