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Showing posts with label Teachers. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Today in Labor History-June 18

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June 18, 1918 - The American Federation of Teachers issued a charter to the St. Paul Federation of Women Teachers Local 28, ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Today in Labor History—May 28

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Grachus Babeuf May 28, 1797 – Revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf was executed (1760-1797). Babeuf formed a secret society that plotted ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Today in Labor History—May 22

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Versaille generals being shot during the Paris Commune May 22, 1871 –The "Bloody Week" continued in France for the second...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Teachers Offer to Work for Free and Get Fired Anyway

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The small Buena Vista, Michigan school district (500 students) closed its doors this week—more than a month early—because it is broke,...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Today in Labor History—April 25

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April 25, 1886 – The New York Times called the eight-hour workday movement "un-American" calling the public demonstration...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Teachers' Lack of Rights at Work AND Home

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In a stunning defeat for free speech and privacy rights a two-person appellate panel has upheld the firing of Jennifer O’Brien (see North...
Friday, January 11, 2013

The Right to an Education or The Obligation to Be Sorted for Capital

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The Left is fond of extolling the virtues of a free public education system, particularly the delusion that it increases social mobility ...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

11,000 Educators Fired in December

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Clean Up Your Act Teachers or You're Out! (Image from Flickr, by   emilydickensonridesabmx ) The Great Recession has been officia...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Failing Schools? Over 50% of California Schools Meet Testing Targets

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Collage based on images by Gilberto Filho and albertopg123 More than half of California's schools met their statewide testing go...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Today in Labor History—October 12

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October 12, 1845  – The First Industrial Congress of US (first US national labor congress) met in  New York City. (From the  Daily Bleed ...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Today in Labor History—September 20

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Chicago Stockyards, 1909 September 20, 1878  - Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, MD. Sinclair wrote the 1906 novel,  The Jungle, ...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Chicago Teachers Vote to Continue Strike

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Huck/Konopacki Labor Cartoons The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) House of Delegates voted Sunday to reject the latest contract proposal...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

The Chicago Strike and the Rebirth (or Death) of Unionism

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The current Chicago teachers strike is the first major teachers strike in years. Indeed, there have been few major strikes in any industr...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Chicago Teachers Strike Update

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Support by parents is still fairly strong. A Chicago Sun Times opinion poll on Monday found that nearly half of parents support the tea...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

It’s the Money, Stupid, Not the Teachers

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The results are in from the latest public opinion poll on teachers. According to the 44th annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of public...