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cleveland.com
April 22, 2018
Teachers and supporters of increased education funding in Oklahoma rally on the fourth floor of the Oklahoma state Capitol April 14 during the walkout ... CLEVELAND, Ohio - The teacher walkouts in Oklahoma and West Virginia, plus the teacher protests in Kentucky and Arizona, that have caught nationalÃâà...
New York Times
April 20, 2018
Arizona educators voted late Thursday in favor of a statewide walkout, as teacher protests over low pay and school funding continued to sweep across the United States. The spread of the protests to Arizona from West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky, all Republican-dominated states with weak publicÃâà...
CNN
April 13, 2018
But the union ended the walkout with about the same amount of spending teachers were promised before it began. Gov. Mary Fallin signed a bill shortly before the start of the walkout that raised spending on teacher and support staff pay by $405.5 million -- netting teachers and staff a $6,100 raise and aÃâà...
New York Times
April 12, 2018
As Arizona teachers pressed for higher salaries and more school funding, and Oklahoma teachers won some concessions from lawmakers amid a nine-day walkout, some in Kentucky continued their protests in favor of more money for education. Last month, West Virginia's Republican-controlledÃâà...
CNN
April 12, 2018
The frustrations over teacher pay, better working conditions and school funding continue to boil over in other states as well. In Kentucky, teachers are preparing to rally Friday at the state Capitol in Frankfort, and in Arizona educators are weighing a walkout of their own. In Oklahoma, some school districtsÃâà...
KTRK-TV
April 2, 2018
Tens of thousands of teachers in Kentucky and Oklahoma are planning to take part in massive rallies and classroom walkouts demanding for better pay and ... Teachers' union president Stephanie Winkler said last week that if the budget is not in the best interest of public education, students and publicÃâà...
New Republic
April 2, 2018
GOP legislators rejected some of Bevin's strictest measures, but their own version of pension reform would've reduced cost of living adjustments for teacher pensions. Pensions are an especially fraught issue in Kentucky because under a unique arrangement, the state's public school teachers aren't eligibleÃâà...
CNN
April 2, 2018
Oklahoma teacher Alberto Morejon said he saw teachers in West Virginia get higher wages after they protested for nine consecutive days. So, the Stillwater Junior High history teacher got on Facebook and typed in "Oklahoma walk out" to see if there were any similar movements planned in his state.
VICE News
March 31, 2018
Kentucky's Jefferson County Public Schools released a brief statement in anticipation of the walkout. “Due to significant teacher absences and the inability to safely cover a large number of classes with substitute teachers in many of our schools, all JCPS schools will be closed today, March 30, 2018.”.
WSAZ-TV
March 31, 2018
LEWIS COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) -- Teachers in Vanceburg, along with many other counties, are making their voices heard outside of the classroom today about their concerns on the state's public pension system. It comes after the Kentucky Senate voted 22-15 yesterday to approve a bill that preserves mostÃâà...
5newsonline.com
March 31, 2018
OKLAHOMA CITY — Teachers across the country are staging protests, looking for better pay and pensions. In Kentucky, schools were ... be able to support a family.” Oklahoma City and Tulsa schools, the state's two largest districts, have already cancelled classes for Monday in anticipation of the walk out.
Shareblue Media
March 31, 2018
The fuse was lit in West Virginia last month, and now the threat of teacher walkouts has spread to three other red states, as educators fight back against the GOP's ongoing war on education. More than two dozen school districts across Kentucky were closed on Friday when teachers refused to show up forÃâà...
World Socialist Web Site
March 31, 2018
The WSWS urges teachers in Kentucky and throughout the US and internationally to sign up for the WSWS Teacher Newsletter to receive updates on the ... while teachers in Arizona are calling for walkouts in the wake of the nine-day February-March strike by 30,000 West Virginia teachers and schoolÃâà...
Lexington Herald Leader
March 30, 2018
Oklahoma teachers were inspired by West Virginia, another red state where a 9-day strike led to 5-percent teacher raises. ... Earlier, she praised bipartisan support of the package and said she hopes the teacher walkouts scheduled to start on Monday will instead become a one-day rally for education.
Vox
March 30, 2018
After the successful 10-day teachers strike in West Virginia, educators in Oklahoma, Arizona, and Kentucky saw hope for their own struggle. .... Over the weekend, they were brainstorming slogans for their signs in the Oklahoma Teacher Walkout Facebook group, which now has more than 50,000 members.
Labor Notes
March 23, 2018
Before the strike was over, teachers in Oklahoma, Arizona, and Kentucky had formed Facebook groups that gathered tens of thousands of members, with rumblings of walkouts and other job actions spreading. Five states have seen average teacher salaries decline since 2015-2016; West Virginia,Ãâà...
NBCNews.com
March 11, 2018
And now teachers appear ready to storm out of classrooms and take to the streets, if necessary. “I haven't seen this much excitement in the labor movement for a strike for years and years,” said Joe Burns, the author of two books about union strikes. Teacher Lesley Buckner protests after Kentucky SenateÃâà...
ABC News
December 31, 1999
The teachers also held a boisterous rally at the capitol this afternoon, chanting, "You left me no choice, I have to use my teacher voice!" ... Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin apologized on Sunday to "those who were hurt" by comments he made about children being at risk for sexual abuse and drug use whileÃâà...
The 74
December 31, 1999
Arizona teachers will vote this week on whether to stage a walkout, and Kentucky schools are back in session after a tense weekend. In Colorado, the latest front in teacher unrest, at least one district was closed Monday because of the number of teachers who called out of work to attend a rally at the capitol.
CityLab
December 31, 1999
As their February walkout came to a head, people around her started asking, “Why not us?” Richard Becker, an organizer with Kentucky's National Conference of Firemen & Oilers (NCFO), an affiliate of the Social Service Employees Union (SEIU), has been helping teachers and public employees strategizeÃâà...
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