What Ohio vote means for teachers nationwide
Ohio voters just gave public school teachers something they haven’t received in a while — respect — by overwhelmingly approving a referendum to repeal a law that limited the collective bargaining rights of public sector employees.
Voters made it clear to their Republican governor, John Kasich, that they don’t like the law he signed in March, known as Senate Bill 5, which, among many provisions, restricted the bargaining rights for more than 350,000 public employees in Ohio, banned strikes and eliminated teacher step pay increases.
Read full article >>Reports on charter schools expose new problems
Two new reports about public charter schools expose serious issues about the way they are run and their effectiveness.
The first was a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about Imagine Schools Inc., the nation’s largest for-profit charter school network, which is based in Arlington, Virginia and which operates more than 71 schools in more than a dozen states — including Maryland — and the District of Columbia.
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