American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the teacher’s union needs to be working with employers on COVID-19 vaccine mandates for teachers.
A local NEA teachers’ union has filed a lawsuit against a school board and a parent to block the release of Critical Race Theory and gender theory records.
Connecticut’s public sector unions say any potential state mandates for coronavirus vaccinations must be negotiated at the bargaining table.
Critical Race Theory opponents in Guilford, CT won out after Republicans voted to place 5 of their candidates on the board of education ballot.
More parents are homeschooling their children even as schools have been planning to reopen with in-person instruction.
“I want to be the first good governor we’ve had in a very long period of time,” said Larry Elder of his campaign for governor in California.
States passed a bounty of school choice laws this year while teachers’ unions balked at reopening schools and vowed to teach Critical Race Theory.
More than 5,000 teachers have signed a Zinn Education Project pledge, vowing to defy laws banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) will feature Critical Race Theory champion Ibram X. Kendi Wednesday during its biennial TEACH (Together Educating America’s Children) professional development conference.
The Zinn Education Project is urging teachers to pledge to instruct students in Critical Race Theory concepts – even if it is banned.
The National Education Association has moved to promote Critical Race Theory in K-12 schools and research the ideology’s critics in order to obstruct their efforts.
A leading teacher’s union called for “activist training” on “whiteness” to make “white privilege and colonialism” visible in schools.
School districts that lost student enrollment during the pandemic are facing the reality those students will stay with their new education choices.
Leaders of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) will vote in September on a declaration to call for an end of the United States government’s aid to Israel.
The San Francisco public school enrollment is plummeting as mostly white families are fleeing the district, a report at the San Francisco Chronicle said Wednesday.
House Republican members demand an investigation into the massive “influence” teachers unions had over the Center for Disease (CDC) guidelines and the timeline for reopening schools.
The chiefs of America’s three largest public school districts have resigned within two months of each other following a tumultuous year.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kennedy,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) stated that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) should treat teachers’ unions the same way President Reagan treated air traffic controllers, “order them back to work, if they
A California high school teacher was caught on a Zoom video telling students to “dare” their parents “to come at” her in response to parents’ collective push to end remote learning and have their children return to in-person classes full time. The teacher added, “I am so sick to my stomach of parents trying to tell educators how to do their job.”
American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten, who leads the nation’s most powerful teachers’ union, has a message for fellow Jews: they should not criticize the unions, because they are part of America’s “ownership class.”
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) teachers and other district staff with young children will be returning to in-person learning with a $500 per month child care subsidy in order to further ensure schools are staffed appropriately, the district said.
Lessons on so-called “white privilege” are needed to combat “racial prejudice” within children, according to new guidance drawn up by a group of education charities and unions.
The union representing a teacher suspended from Batley Grammar School for showing images of the Islamic prophet during a lesson on blasphemy donated thousands of pounds to a charity that doxed him and accused him of “terrorism”.
The Hartford, Connecticut teachers’ union said it is too early for the city’s schools to return to in-person learning in classrooms.
Massachusetts teachers’ unions are backing a piece of emergency legislation filed by state lawmakers that would block the Bay State’s education commissioner from mandating that all districts return to in-person learning by April 5.
Education Secretary Cardona said it will “take years” to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nation’s education system.
President Joe Biden lamented the fact that many of the nation’s children have been out of school for an entire year during the coronavirus pandemic, even though he has supported the teacher’s unions that have refused to return to in-person learning.
United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) reached a tentative agreement on Tuesday to reopen public schools, which have remained closed for a year.
Connecticut Gov. Lamont said he plans to end capacity limits on restaurants, other businesses, and churches, but still require social distancing and masks.
Mental health problems are a greater threat than COVID-19, said Sen. Roger Marshall, referring to psychological damage driven by lockdowns.
The United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA), the largest local teachers’ union in California, rejected Governor Gavin Newsom’s school reopening plan on Monday, calling it “”a recipe for propagating structural racism.”
Glenn Kessler fact-checks Republicans for a living at the Washington Post, but on Sunday he got fact-checked for improperly accusing former President Trump of being dishonest about President Joe Biden’s inability to reopen schools.
Parents in San Francisco fed up with shuttered schools have launched a campaign to recall three elected members of the local school board.
New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza announced his resignation following delays in reopening schools and racism-focused policies.
On Thursday’s broadcast of ABC’s “GMA3,” American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten stated that returning students to classrooms full-time “is going to depend upon what’s going on with physical distancing, and what’s going on with the variants.” Co-host Amy Robach
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) slammed teachers’ unions on Thursday during a confirmation hearing for Assistant Secretary for Health nominee Dr. Rachel Levine, saying that Democrats were doing the union’s bidding in keeping schools closed.
Teachers’ unions held rallies in San Francisco and Los Angeles on Saturday against re-opening public schools in the area until a list of safety demands are met.
Frustrated parents of children in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) public school system are organizing a strike to protest the teachers’ unions’ refusal to return to work.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said Democrats “cry about taking care of the most vulnerable,” but the party’s leadership “made a decision to support teachers’ unions” over the needs of low-income
Vice President Kamala Harris clarified the White House’s position on schools reopening without teacher vaccinations as Dr. Anthony Fauci had recommended, providing her comments in an interview Wednesday morning on the Today show.
