California’s Teachers Are Finally Going After the Original Sin That Wrecked the State’s Public Schools
Student Damyha Gates, 9, center, speaks next to her mother, teacher Myeisha Jones, center left, as teachers, parents and supporters march outside of Manzanita Community School in Oakland, California. Jeff Chiu/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On February 20, just before Oakland’s teachers went on strike, Carmelita Reyes organized a…
In Schools All Over the Country, America’s Kids Are Exposed to Water Tainted by Toxic Lead
Edwin Remsberg/VW Pics via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Shakima Thomas came home one day last October, she found a piece of paper wedged in her door telling her the water in her…
Oakland Teachers Reach Tentative Deal to End Strike
Educators, students and supporters rally at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, California during a seven-day teachers strike. Jeff Chiu/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, after a week of protest, the Oakland teachers’ union has announced a tentative agreement with the Oakland Unified School District to end the city’s longest such…
Oakland Teachers Are Still on Strike. What Are Parents Doing With Their Kids?
Magdaline Armstrong (right), a first-grade teacher, and her eight-year-old daughter, Nilaya, eight, picket outside Futures Elementary School.Rosa Furneaux/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, before thousands of Oakland teachers went on strike to call for more pay and smaller class sizes, teachers’ union president Keith Brown asked parents…
How Is This 10-Year-Old Fighting Climate Change? First, by Ditching School.
She started a litter-picking campaign, sharing photos and videos on social media through Lilly’s Plastic Pickup. She’s since been invited to international environment conferences, and is now a youth ambassador for the Plastic Pollution Coalition, an anti-plastic alliance based in California, and HOW Global, a global development NGO. “I’ve never stopped picking up plastic,” she…
This Is What It Looks Like When Teachers Organize
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. More than 3,000 teachers in Oakland stood on picket lines for a second straight day Friday to demand better pay, smaller class sizes, and more resources for their district’s beleaguered schools. On Thursday, I joined my colleague Edwin Rios as he reported on the first…