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Educational Stages, Secondary Education

As teacher protests escalate, non-union educators express mixed feelings

May 9, 2019

Via: Education Dive

Images of red-clad educators filling city streets and crowding into state capitals over the past year have displayed a unified effort among affiliates of the nation’s two teachers unions to demand higher salaries and more funding for schools. But members […]


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Teacher strikes’ focuses shift from pay to ‘the common good’

January 30, 2019

Via: Education Dive

Teachers’ efforts to “bargain for the common good” — an approach also known as social unionism — is not new, though it is gaining momentum. This approach was used in bargaining agreements in Chicago as early as 2012, in Los […]


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More teacher protests are on the horizon

September 13, 2018

Via: Education Dive

During the past academic year, six wide-scale protests and strikes in Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and West Virginia took place across the nation. Factors that led to the protests include disputes over teacher pay gaps with other professions, […]