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Teachers in Oklahoma and Kentucky are on strike. From Business Insider (they have a list of teachers' salaries in each state - Washington comes in right at 25th):
Teachers in Oklahoma — where 20% of school districts have four-day school weeks due to budget restrictions — went on strike April 2 after a new budget was passed. Teachers haven't gotten a raise there since 2008, while class sizes are larger than the legally allowed maximum of 20 students per room.
In Kentucky, teachers are protesting too — fighting budget cuts and a plan to make teacher retirement pensions more like 401(k) accounts, according to The New York Times. In Arizona, teachers are asking for a 20% salary increase and are preparing for public protests.
Education funding for schools and students varies widely from state to state. In Utah, $6,575 is spent on each student, while in New York spends $21,000 per pupil. The relationship between spending more money on education and higher academic achievement has been supported and opposed, with no clear answer available.
I'll just note here that while mega-ed reformers like the Koch brothers and ALEC support charter schools, do they really care about public education? No, what they really care about is breaking the teachers unions which are the largest in the country. That the Oklahoma Teamsters support all unions is wonderful because all unions have to stand together because if you get rid of the teachers union, who's next? It's all part of privatizing public education.
A great article from NY Magazine, The Teachers’ Strikes Have Exposed the GOP’s Achilles Heel,
that examines the really big picture of all these strikes:
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The Seattle Public Library proudly supports diversity and inclusion in its employment practices.
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Teachers in Oklahoma — where 20% of school districts have four-day school weeks due to budget restrictions — went on strike April 2 after a new budget was passed. Teachers haven't gotten a raise there since 2008, while class sizes are larger than the legally allowed maximum of 20 students per room.
In Kentucky, teachers are protesting too — fighting budget cuts and a plan to make teacher retirement pensions more like 401(k) accounts, according to The New York Times. In Arizona, teachers are asking for a 20% salary increase and are preparing for public protests.
Education funding for schools and students varies widely from state to state. In Utah, $6,575 is spent on each student, while in New York spends $21,000 per pupil. The relationship between spending more money on education and higher academic achievement has been supported and opposed, with no clear answer available.
I'll just note here that while mega-ed reformers like the Koch brothers and ALEC support charter schools, do they really care about public education? No, what they really care about is breaking the teachers unions which are the largest in the country. That the Oklahoma Teamsters support all unions is wonderful because all unions have to stand together because if you get rid of the teachers union, who's next? It's all part of privatizing public education.
A great article from NY Magazine, The Teachers’ Strikes Have Exposed the GOP’s Achilles Heel,
that examines the really big picture of all these strikes:
This is the lesson that the striking educators are teaching us. When a well-organized movement — with genuine roots in “conservative” communities (and no plausible ties to George Soros or Nancy Pelosi) forces the GOP’s fiscal agenda to the center of public debate, the political terrain shifts — and conservatives struggle to stand their ground. Suddenly, Oklahoma Republicans can vote to take money from oil companies and give it to teachers; and those teachers can meet their offer with protests instead of gratitude.Community meeting with Director Harris on Saturday at the High Point Library from 3-5 pm.
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Also, they have four two week sel-study sessions to learn what the kid wants, like dancing.
Anybody else hear anything?
Jo
http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2017-18/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1896-S2.PL.pdf
Beginning with or before the 2020-21 school year, each school district that operates a high school must provide a mandatory one-half credit stand-alone course in civics for each high school student. Except as provided by (c) of this subsection, civics content and instruction embedded in other social studies courses do not satisfy the requirements of this subsection.
The exception is that content "may be embedded in social studies courses that offer students the opportunity to earn both high school and postsecondary credit."
an fyi
If half the class is failing, it sounds like teachers aren't doing a good job with them. Or the school did a poor job with admissions. Or the curricula are bad. Or maybe they spend too much time on self-study or working on personal interests instead of academics. Or...lots of things.
Failing your junior year is not typically a good thing, nor is a low overall graduation rate.
HF