Republicans Want to Throw the Book at Colorado Teachers Getting Ready to Strike
Teachers hold placards during a rally outside the state Capitol, Monday, April 16, 2018, in Denver.David Zalubowski/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a week before thousands of Colorado teachers are expected to descend on the state capitol to rally for better pay and protest potential retirement benefit cuts, two Republican…
How a Skeptical High School Teacher Learned to Take Teenagers Seriously
Mingo Nesmith/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. During the first week of May 1963, more than 800 African-American students walked out of their classrooms and into the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, to call for an end to segregation. Despite frequent arrests and having dogs…
More Guns Won’t Make Us Safer. Here’s What Might.
siiixth/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. Guns. In a country with more than 300 million of them, a country that’s recently been swept up in a round of protests over the endless killing sprees they permit, you’d think I might have had more…
Kentucky’s Governor Just Apologized for Claiming Teacher Protest Led to Sexual Assaults
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin. Alex Slit/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) issued an apology Sunday following outrage over his assertion that a walkout by teachers in the state likely led to children being sexually assaulted and facing other “physical” harms. “I guarantee…
Kentucky’s GOP Governor Says Teacher Protests Enable Child Sexual Assault
Teachers from across Kentucky gather inside the state Capitol to rally for increased funding for education on Friday. Bryan Woolston/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, just hours after protesting teachers flooded Kentucky’s capitol building to rally against a pension reform plan and call for increased school funding, the…
Arizona’s Governor Just Caved and Offered Teachers a 20 Percent Raise. They’re Not Satisfied.
Teachers at Tuscano Elementary School stage a “walk-in” for higher pay and school funding as they walk into school on Wednesday in Phoenix.Ross D. Franklin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday night, just a day after thousands of Arizona teachers staged “walk-ins” at their schools to call for better…