Endorse Obama this July? At last summer’s NEA convention in New Orleans the delegates voted no confidence in Obama’s Education Secretary Arne Duncan. At this summer’s NEA convention in Chicago the delegates will be asked to endorse Obama. The administration ignored the last ...
House passes anti-teacher law. Goes to Governor’s desk. It would take an unlikely veto by Pat Quinn. The House passed the bill by an overwhelming vote this afternoon. While the Chicago Teachers Union tried to mount a way too late attack on the bill, the leadership of the IEA and the IFT allied with the ...
Teachers, students protest Mayor’s budget cuts at NY rally. Teachers, students protest Mayor’s budget cuts at downtown rally | 7online.com. Thousands are marching towards Battery Park in Manhattan at this hour to protest Mayor Bloomberg’s cuts in teachers and public service employees. Bloomberg has ...
The SOS Washington March and the issue of collective bargaining. It was back in late winter when I first heard about the SOS March and National Call to Action. I was impressed by their list of Guiding Principles and their list of education activists who are endorsing it. But I first read about the March and Call ...
