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Union Leaders Agree – Our Strength Is In Fighting for the Public Good

July 28, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

By Julie Carson and Matthew Kogan, Teachers, United Teachers Los Angeles (group affiliation added for identification purposes only; this is not an official communication of UTLA) The standing room only crowd at the AFT convention’s Social Movement Unionism vs. Corporation “Reform” panel discussion held earlier this month demonstrated that many union members are hungry to […]

Filed Under: Educators, Los Angeles Tagged With: AFT, AFT 2014, Chicago Teachers Union, Karen Lewis, LAUSD, Michael Mulgrew, Social Justice Unionism, Social Movement Unionism, United Teachers Los Angeles, UTLA

Social Movement Unionism Comes to the Teachers Unions at Last

July 16, 2014 by

I am an activist and organizer who recently joined the fight against “education reform,” which is really code for the attempt by corporations, billionaires and hedge funds and the industry they have spawned, to privatize public education and break the teachers unions. I have been frustrated at the seeming lack of interest on the part […]

Filed Under: Educators, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St Paul, New York City, Philadelphia, School closures Tagged With: AFT, teachers unions, UFT, UTLA

Photo Gallery from AFT Panel: Social Movement Unionism vs. Corporate “Reform”

July 13, 2014 by Robert D Skeels

AFT Panel: Social Movement Unionism vs. Corporate "Reform"

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Activism, AFT, resistance, Social Justice Unionism, struggle, Union

Reconnecting McDowell: A New Paradigm For Education Reform

December 19, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

The American Federation of Teachers and forty business and community groups come together to support students who attend schools in rural high-poverty areas, like McDowell County, West Virginia. This is a vision of transformational public education where the whole child — no matter how hungry, homeless, or deprived of enrichment at home — comes to school fed, clothed, stimulated, and ready to learn.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: AFT, MacDowell County, poverty, rural schools

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Federal Policy

Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

There are twenty-three candidates running to fill former Congressman Xavier Bacerra’s seat in Congressional District 34 in Southern California. (Bacerra is currently the state’s Attorney General, replacing Kamala Harris, who, after November 8, 2016, became our US Senator.) Election Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. You can find your polling […]

Betsy DeVos, #NOTMYSDOE

Take the pledge to #resist and fight for public schools as a public good TODAY. DeVos had to have the assistance of Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented tie-breaking vote in order to win her confirmation. Two GOP Senators voted against, all Democratic Senators voted against. Yet all the other GOP Senators who received campaign donations […]

Next #DemDebate MUST Include K-12 Education Policy

The next #DemDebate is scheduled for the important primary state of Iowa on November 14, 2015. It’ll be broadcast by CBS in partnership with the Des Moines Register. Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig is leading the call for the families of 50 million students K-12 across the nation and the communities they live in to have […]

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