by Jeff Bryant | May 3, 2018 | Blog
As mass teacher walkouts and protests ebb in Arizona and Colorado, bold new actions are ramping up in North Carolina. This spring's teacher uprisings may well last through the end of this school year. On the whole, teachers across the nation have strung together an...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 27, 2018 | Blog
Headlines about teachers' strikes may have moved on from Kentucky and Oklahoma to Arizona and Colorado, but the uprisings these wildcat teachers started have not, according to numerous sources I've spoken with in Louisville – Kentucky's largest school district, with...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 23, 2018 | Blog
We can add Arizona to the ever-growing list of states where teachers are saying "enough" to state-imposed financial austerity, and walking off the job to protest years of pay cuts, inadequate school resources, and stressful working conditions. Under the banner...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 19, 2018 | Blog
Surprising results from a new survey of teachers reveal the depth of "financial strain" classroom professionals face. These include high levels of college debt, stagnation of already subpar pay, increasing housing and childcare costs, rising health insurance premiums...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 12, 2018 | Blog
One of the more interesting stories about the recent release of scores on the 2017 National Assessment of Education Progress (aka. The Nation's Report Card) is not about the scores themselves but the way conservative education policy operatives are spinning them. The...
