The American Federation of Teachers has joined several other groups in filing a class action today on behalf of 350 Filipino teachers who were allegedly subjected to usurious fees, substandard housing, threats of deportation, and other harassment by a teacher-recruitment firm, USA Today reports. Th... Read Full Post >
The Chicago Teachers' Union is suing to prevent the school district from laying off hundreds of classroom teachers and instructional "coaches," the Associated Press reports. The district is trying to close a huge funding shortfall, but the union says that the district violated the teachers' due pro... Read Full Post >
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten had a quick briefing with reporters yesterday on all the edu-action this week. Asked about President Obama's defense of the Race to the Top program to the National Urban League, Weingarten said it's only natural that the president would fo... Read Full Post >
The National Education Association's $6 million Priority Schools Campaign got a bit lost last year in the wake of all the Race to the Top action. Other reporters, myself included, had a hard time distinguishing this effort from all of NEA's other initiatives. Fortunately, while covering the NEA co... Read Full Post >
Rumors were floating around for days that American Federation of Teachers officials would offer a resolution critical of the federal Race to the Top program, but such a resolution never made it to the convention floor. Some wonky background for you: An AFT affiliate did submit a Race to the Top re... Read Full Post >
This year's union conventions have given us a lot to chew on, starting with their responses to teacher effectiveness issues. Read Full Post >
Bill Gates, who really needs no introduction, gave an address to the American Federation of Teachers today. I got an opportunity to chat with Gates after the speech and will have more for you on that next week, but here's a rundown of the address. You can think of it as somewhat akin to AFT Pre... Read Full Post >
The American Federation of Teachers' delegates just passed two important resolutions, on teacher evaluation and school closures, so let's take each of them in turn. Resolution five, you may recall, codifies the AFT's evaluation framework and affirms that test scores, used appropriately and as one ... Read Full Post >
This morning, two political bodies within the American Federation of Teachers presented their platforms for today's elections of AFT executive officers and council. That's right, I said two. Apparently, this is the first time since the 1970s that there has been a full slate of candidates opposing t... Read Full Post >
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten announced just a few moments ago that the union has reached the 1.5 million member mark. It has added almost 70,000 new dues-paying members in the past two years across all of its divisions, not just teachers. Weingarten, AFT Secretary-Tre... Read Full Post >
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