What’s behind the Obama administration’s recent ‘180 on standardized tests?
Recently President Obama, in a surprising shift, committed to ending the growing trend of excessive standardized tests being forced on the nation’s public school students. He penned … Continue reading
Classroom Struggle Newsletter #6
Classroom Struggle is excited to bring the readers of this blog the sixth iteration of our newsletter. In 2012, we started publishing under the title Education for the 99% as … Continue reading
11 Reasons why the Seattle Teachers Strike was important in the struggle for quality public education.
Seattle teachers received never before seen levels of parent support during the strike. One group of parents organized as ‘Soup for teachers’, by the end of strike this group … Continue reading
Seattle Teachers Strike for the Public Schools Seattle Students Deserve
Back to school time for most communities across the U.S. puts students and teachers back in the classroom charting a course for the next ten or so months. Yet one … Continue reading
Why I am Voting No on the Tentative Agreement
by Natalia Cooper, Special Education teacher at Oakland Technical High School I am so proud to be an Oakland educator in this moment of great importance for our union and … Continue reading
What I sent to my co-workers at Fremont on the TA
by Nick Parker Regarding the important vote on the tentative agreement this Wednesday June 3: I recommend people take a look at this summary. I also explain my thoughts on … Continue reading
Some questions on the TA…
Deirdre Snyder has some questions about the TA. Maybe you do too. Like… What happened to the double-digit raise? It disappeared! We’re being offered 8% but really that’s more like … Continue reading
